2010 women lawyers journal VOL. 95 NO. 1
IN THIS ISSUE
17 Women Helping Women: If You Want to Make a Real Difference, Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable adapted from a speech by Kathleen Wu, Andrews Kurth LLP
21 Lori’s Blackberry Code of Conduct by Lori Pines
24 Book Review: Justice Older Than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree by Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnston Roundtree; reviewed by Deborah Froling
NAWL’S MID-YEAR MEETING IN DALLAS,TExAS at nawl’s mid-year meeting in Dallas, Texas, nawl honored Chief justice Carolyn wright with its leadership award. Presenting the award to justice wright is nawl President-elect, Dorian Denburg. justice wright has served in the judiciary for more than 25 years. while many of the positions held by her have been historical firsts for women and minorities serving in the Dallas judiciary, her election to the Court ofa ppeals marked the first time in Texas history that ana frican american woman has ever won a multi-county election for any elected office in Texas, and she is the onlya frican-american woman currently serving on an appellate court in the state of Texas. Her judicial service includes more than 14 years on the Court of appeals, eight years as an elected state District judge and three years as an associate judge in the Family District Courts.
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About Women Lawyers Journal About NAWL...... 3
Editor Deborah S. Froling Editor’s Note...... 4 Washington, DC [email protected] President’s Letter...... 5
EDITORIAL POLICY Event Highlights...... 6 Women Lawyers Journal is published for NAWL members as a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. Views expressed in articles are those of the authors and do Women Helping Women: If You Want to Make a not necessarily reflect NAWL policies or official positions. Real Difference, Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable...... 8 Publication of an opinion is not an endorsement by NAWL. adapted from a speech by Kathleen Wu, Andrews Kurth LLP We reserve the right to edit all submissions.
Lori’s Blackberry Code of Conduct...... 11 ARTICLES Book reviews or articles about current legal issues of general by Lori Pines interest to women lawyers are accepted and may be edited based on the judgment of the editor. Editorial decisions are Book Review: Justice Older Than the Law: based upon potential interest to readers, timelines, goals, and The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree...... objectives of the association and the quality of the writing. 13 No material can be returned unless accompanied by a self- by Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnston Roundtree; addressed, stamped envelope. reviewed by Deborah Froling
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2 National Association of Women Lawyers : the voice of women in the law NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN LAWYERS
ExECUTIVE BOARD
President Lisa Gilford Los Angeles, CA
President-Elect about nawl Dorian S. Denburg Atlanta, GA Founded in 1899, nawl is a professional association of attorneys, judges and law students serving the educational, legal and practical interests of the Vice President organized bar and women worldwide. Both women and men are welcome to Heather C. Giordanella Philadelphia, PA join. women lawyers journal®, national association of women lawyers®, nawl, and the nawl seal are registered trademarks. Treasurer Beth L. Kaufman By joining nawl, you join women throughout the united states and New York, NY overseas to advocate for women in the legal profession and women’s rights. Corresponding Secretary we boast a history of more than 100 years of action on behalf of women Lisa M. Passante lawyers. For more information about membership and the work of nawl, Wilmington, DE visit www.nawl.org. Treasurer-Elect Deborah S. Froling Washington, DC BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP Members-at-Large • A voice on national and international issues affecting women through DeAnna Allen leadership in a national and historical organization Washington, DC Marsha Anastasia • Networking opportunities with women lawyers across the United States Stamford, CT Cathy Fleming • Access to programs specifically designed to assist women lawyers in New York, NY their everyday practice and advancement in the profession Lorraine K. Koc Philadelphia, PA • A subscription to the quarterly Women Lawyers Journal and the ability Zoe Sanders Nettles to be kept up to date on cutting edge national legislation and legal issues Columbia, SC affecting women Carol Robles-Román New York, NY • The opportunity to demonstrate your commitment and the commitment Wendy Schmidt of your firm or company to support diversity in the legal profession. New York, NY Anita Wallace Thomas Atlanta, GA Salila Yohn CONTACT NAWL New York, NY national association of women lawyers Immediate Past President Lisa Horowitz american Bar Center, ms 15.2 Washington, DC 321 north Clark street Chicago, Il 60654 Past President t 312.988.6186 Holly English f 312.988.5491 Roseland, NJ [email protected] Executive Director www.nawl.org Vicky DiProva Chicago, IL
wlj : women lawyers journal : 2010 Vol. 95 no. 1 3 Editor’s note
If you were at NAWL’s Mid-Year Meeting in Dallas, Texas, hopefully you stayed until the end to hear Kathleen Wu’s inspiring speech. If you weren’t in Dallas and/or didn’t stay until the end of the day to hear Kathleen, then you are in luck. We’ve included the highlights of her speech in this issue. We weren’t able to include her powerpoint slides which provided great visual aids but we think the snippets we’ve included here will give you a good sense of the content. I hope it will leave you as inspired as those of us who were in attendance were (and it didn’t hurt that there was champagne passed when the toast was made at the end). In addition, we have a fun article on a Blackberry® code of conduct. I hope that those of you who are as addicted to yours as I am mine will find it a useful reminder of how we can let technology take over our lives and sometimes we just need to put the device down and enjoy the world around us. another article in this issue is one I’m extremely excited about (and it’s not just because I wrote it, although I’m pretty proud of that as well). It is a review of the book, Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree. She is one spectacular lady and the book is a fascinating read. I was honored to have the opportunity to interview Katie McCabe, the co- author with Dovey, for this article as well. I commend all of you to read the book and to attend NAWL’s annual meeting in New York in July where Katie will discuss the book on Thursday, July 22 prior to the luncheon. The pictures included in this issue are from some of the great events that NAWL has put on over the past few months, including its Mid-Year Meeting in Dallas, Texas and highlights from its Nights of Giving held in Miami, Florida and Golden Valley, Minnesota. I love hearing from our members and readers about what they like and don’t like about the Women Lawyers Journal. If you have suggestions or want to write an article, please drop me an email. I hope you enjoy the issue!
Warm wishes,
Deborah S. Froling, Editor Arent Fox LLP Washington, D.C. [email protected]
4 National Association of Women Lawyers : the voice of women in the law President’s letter
It is with great anticipation and some sadness that I look forward to the NAWL Annual Meeting in New York at the beautiful and historic Waldorf=Astoria. The Annual Meeting has become a celebration of women lawyers and has been the source of great inspiration to all those who attend. It also marks the end of my tenure as President of NAWL. As I look back on this year, I am proud of NAWL’s accomplishments and its financial strength. NAWL’s Nights of Giving continue to allow NAWL members and others to give back to their communities. NAWL’s mid- year meeting in Dallas, Texas was attended by over 250 participants. NAWL Supreme Court committee is involved in evaluating a new woman nominee for the land’s highest court. There is much to be proud of and much that will continue to be done.
This year at our Annual Meeting, as in year’s past, we look to honor some outstanding women and organizations. This year’s honorees include:
• The Honorable Judith Kaye Arabella Babb Mansfield Award • Met Life Legal Department NAWL President’s Award • Elaine Jones, President and Director-Counsel Emeritus,NAACP Legal Defense Fund NAWL Public Service Award • Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO, BET Entertainment M. Ashley Dickerson Diversity Award
Virginia S. Mueller Outstanding Member Awards: • Elicia Blackwell, Miami, FL • Merrie Cavanaugh, Dallas, TX • Katherine Compton, Dallas, TX • Jennifer Guenther, San Bernadino, CA • Kristin Sostowski, Newark, NJ • Janet Stiven, Chicago, IL
My deepest thanks to our NAWL members, friends and supporters, and I’m confident that NAWL will continue to strengthen and grow as I turn over the presidency to Dorian Denburg, the incoming NAWL President.
Warmest regards,
Lisa Gilford NAWL President 2009-2010 Alston + Bird LLP [email protected]
WLJ : Women Lawyers Journal : 2010 Vol. 95 No. 1 5 Event highlights
NAWL Mid-Year Meeting
February 25, 2010, Dallas, Texas
On February 25, 2010, at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, NAWL held its Mid-Year Meeting. Chaired by NAWL Vice President Heather Giordanella, counsel at Drinker Biddle & Reath, the mid-year meeting included CLE programs and NAWL award recipients Dell Inc.’s Legal Department (NAWL Challenge Award) and Chief Justice Carolyn Wright (Leadership Award). In addition, the meeting included a two panel presentations, Collective Wisdom: Lessons from the Bench that Every Woman Lawyer Should Know and The Ethics of Self Promotion and Resolving Client Conflicts, as well as a facilitated exercise entitled “Every Woman Needs a Game Plan” and remarks entitled “Women Helping Women: If You Want to Make a Real Difference Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable” by Kathleen Wu of Andrews Kurth. A cocktail reception was held the evening before at the beautiful Belo Mansion.
Members of the Mid-Year Meeting Planning Committee. Front row: Enjoying the picturesque Belo Mansion are some attendees Sinead Soesbe, Marisia Parra-Goana, Heather Giordanella, Jane from Greenberg Traurig. Mallor McBride, Lyndel Mason and Stacey White. Back row: Vicky DiProva, Elicia Blackwell, Laura Kugler, Kit Addelman, Kathleen LaValle, Victoria Kulik, Christie Villarreal, Merrie Cavanaugh, Gayla Crain, DeAnna Allen, Katherine Compton, Rebecca Massiatte, Angela Brandt and Kristin Bauer.
A panel entitled “Collective Wisdom: Lessons from the Bench Merrie Cavanaugh of AT&T, Heather Giordanella, NAWL Vice About What Every Woman Lawyer Should Know,” was presented President and counsel at Drinker Biddle & Reath, Kathleen Wu, at the Mid-Year Meeting. The panelists were: seated: Honorable of Andrews Kurth LLP, the keynote speaker for the meeting, and Stacey Jernigan, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of NAWL President-Elect, Dorian Denburg of AT&T pose for the Texas and Judge Catharina Haynes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the camera. Fifth Circuit. Standing: Chief Justice Carolyn Wright, Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals and panel moderator, Judge Barbara Lynn, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas.
6 National Association of Women Lawyers : the voice of women in the law Event highlights
NAWL Mid-Year Meeting
February 25, 2010, Dallas, Texas
NAWL Treasurer Beth Kaufman, NAWL Past President Holly NAWL Board Members DeAnna Allen, partner at Dickstein English, NAWL Immediate Past President Lisa Horowitz and Shapiro, and Anita Wallace Thomas, partner at Nelson Mullins, NAWL Executive Director Vicky DiProva take a break during paused for a moment to be captured by the camera during the Mid-Year Meeting. the meeting.
In Golden Valley, Minnesota at General Mills Corporate Headquarters, NAWL, along with General Mills and In Miami, Florida, at the offices of K&L Gates, NAWL, Lexis Nexis, sponsored a Night of Giving benefitting along with K&L Gates and Lexis Nexis, sponsored a Girls in Action: Ready for the World, Ready to Compete. Night of Giving benefitting the American Red Cross of Co-sponsoring the event was the Minnesota Women Miami Dade County. Lawyers Association.
The girls of Girls in Action pose outside of the Night of Giving. Attendees at the Night of Giving pose in front of the table of goodies that were packed into gift bags.
WLJ : Women Lawyers Journal : 2010 Vol. 95 No. 1 7 Women Helping Women: If You Want to Make a Real Difference, Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Adapted from a speech by Kathleen Wu, Andrews Kurth LLP for publication by Heather Austin, an associate in the Philadelphia office of Thorp Reed & Armstrong LLP.
Women today, Kathleen Wu is a partner in the Dallas office of Andrews Kurth LLP, focusing her practice on real particularly women estate, finance and business transactions. Kathleen has been selected as a Texas Lawyer Super Lawyer each year since its inception and was one of only 30 “Extraordinary Women in Texas entering the Law” by Texas Lawyer as well as one of the “Most Powerful and Influential Women in Texas” by workforce today, Texas Diversity, among other recognitions. She is a sought-after speaker, author and advocate on clearly took our multiple issues affecting women in the workplace. advice when we told them they can Working women have made significant strides over the the target of most layoffs. Lower income professional be anything they last 50 to 100 years; yet, many women continue to leave positions, held primarily by women, have not been hit as the workforce during childbearing and child-rearing hard. “In a nutshell, women are worth less, so we’re not want to be. These years because they cannot “balance” their work and home getting hit as hard by this recession as men.” young women life. Work-life balance, or more accurately work-life women today, particularly women entering the are increasingly choices, are tough and have consequences. For instance, a workforce today, clearly took our advice when we told decision to have children may necessarily force a working them they can be anything they want to be. These more well rounded, woman to decrease the number of hours that she works. young women are increasingly more well rounded, demonstrating While many employers are beginning to honor requests demonstrating not only great academic strength, but not only great to work part-time or telecommute, there are not enough significant extracurricular activities, as well. Ironically, employers who have found a way to accommodate the as a result of efforts of many colleges to maintain the academic strength, working mothers they employ. There is a need to advocate gender balance on the campuses, many of these highly but significant for ways to keep these working moms in the game. Who qualified young ladies are finding it harder to get into extracurricular will do this? According to Kathleen Wu: “We are the ones the college of their choice. Two-thirds of colleges and we have been waiting for.” universities report that they receive more applications activities, as well. wu, a partner with Andrews Kurth, LLP, located in from women than men. However, many middling male Dallas, Texas is motivated by a desire to help others applicants are accepted over more extraordinary female navigate the daily challenges that women in the legal applicants because of the gender control initiative, profession face when trying to succeed in a profession the discriminatory effects of which are now being dominated by men. Shortly after being named investigated by the Commission on Civil Rights. managing partner of her firm in 1997, Wu began of course, not all colleges and universities seek to writing and talking about these issues, and she shared control the gender balance of their student population. her observations and advice in remarks given during However, the gender-blind application process used the February 25, 2010 mid-year meeting of the National by the University of North Carolina, the University Association of Women Lawyers. of Vermont and other schools across the nation has noting that women have made progress over the resulted in school populations where “women so last several decades, Wu commented on a recent outnumber men on college campuses that it has turned announcement by the Pew Research Center, revealing the dating world on its head” and the students’ social that women are outpacing their spouses in both income lives “will consist of nothing but Girls Night Out.” (22% earn more than their husbands) and education “Those who have been advocates for change have (28% have more education than their husbands). never gotten enough of it fast enough.” This is the case The apparent progress is explained somewhat by the with professional women who, according to Wu, are layoffs triggered by the recent recession. High income better off than they were 50-100 years ago but, who have, professional positions, held overwhelmingly by men, were in many ways, barely moved the needle. Relying on the
8 National Association of Women Lawyers : the voice of women in the law Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wu noted the discrepancy an average of $66,000 per year more than their female While studies are between the more than 10 million women with children counterparts. not conclusive under 18 years of age who are not in the labor force according to Wu, the disparity cannot be one of and their 1.7 million male counterparts. While many qualifications. That women are just as good as men in on the issue of women leave the workforce to care for their children, the workplace is a contention so plainly accurate Wu did causation, Wu Wu believes Corporate America forgot most of these not find it necessary to back it up with data. However, explained that a women never intended to depart permanently. The slow one question remained, and it is not so easily answered: embrace by American companies of alternative work are women actually better managers than men? The 2007 study by schedules and telecommuting opportunities precludes answer is a definitive “maybe.” Catalyst found many women from staying employed and meeting their according to researcher Alice Eagly, women, in that, on average, family obligations. general, are “less bossy, more collaborative and more It’s not as if companies don’t have an incentive to democratic.” Women are also more encouraging and companies with the accommodate female employees. While studies are not positive in their approach. However, not all of the highest percentage conclusive on the issue of causation, Wu explained that a women who make it to the top exhibit these qualities. of female board 2007 study by Catalyst found that, on average, companies The ABA Journal asked 1,400 people who they would with the highest percentage of female board directors had rather work for, men or women. The good news is that directors had a higher return on equity (53% higher) and on invested 58% said it didn’t make any difference. However, for a higher return capital (66% higher) than those with the least number those female lawyers under 40 who thought gender on equity (53% of women directors. Likewise, USA Today reported that mattered, a solid majority preferred to work for male the stocks of 13 Fortune 500 companies with women at supervisors because of their perceived ability to give higher) and on the helm in 2009 were up an average of 50% compared better direction, provide more constructive criticism invested capital to a 25% gain in the S&P 500. These leading women, and keep confidential information private. Despite the (66% higher) than like other minorities in power, look to hire vendors and concerns that some women expressed about working for firms that take diversity seriously. By way of example, a woman, female supervisors who expressed a gender those with the least Roderick Palmore, General Counsel at General Mills, preference preferred to have women work for them. number of women rewards or penalizes law firms based on their racial and wu considered the gender gap as a possible directors. gender diversity. Palmore, who is African-American, explanation for the gender preference, noting that many has gotten more than 100 General Counsel to sign on women lawyers over 40 made their career a priority and to his Call to Action, which evaluates the diversity of made the necessary sacrifices, accepting the trade-offs their outside law firms. Some companies demand more that come from that decision. This generation is much than diversity, cost-effectiveness and performance goals. less sympathetic to the younger generation of women Joseph West, Associate General Counsel for Wal-Mart, who expect to be accommodated—they want to have announced that the company’s outside counsel must also it all, a rewarding home life, children, marriage and a have flextime policies in addition to meeting diversity, challenging, rewarding career. It’s a generational gap cost-effectiveness and performance goals. It is clearly in and there is no fairy dust to make it go away. a law firm’s best interest to help women succeed. a recent New York Times story reported on bullying women who remain employed after starting a family in the workplace and revealed that while both women often bump up against the glass ceiling and never smash (40%) and men (60%) are the culprits, “of those 40% through it. For example, in the legal profession, Wu of women who did bully, women were their victims noted that most women do not rise above the associate 70% of the time.” Male bullies were equal opportunity level. Wu noted that a recent American Lawyer study offenders, bullying both genders equally. Women, showed that women make up about a third of lawyers at according to Wu, expect that female bosses will play the our nation’s biggest and most prestigious law firms but role of a friend. Women are judged more harshly for still only account for less than twenty percent of big firm the very acts for which men are applauded. Take, for partners. Similarly, the National Association of Women instance, Justice Sotomayor, who was harshly criticized Lawyers’ survey results show that nearly half of U.S. law for her courtroom demeanor. However, when the firms count no women amongst their top-10 rainmakers. criticism began, Judge Guido Calabresi, a colleague Women also make up only a small percentage of firm from the court of appeals started to pay close attention managing partners (6%) and members of high level to what Judge Sotomayor and her male counterparts firm governing committees (15%). And, with regard said to lawyers appearing before the court. He found to those on equal footing, male equity partners earn “no difference at all” and he “concluded that all that was
WLJ : Women Lawyers Journal : 2010 Vol. 95 No. 1 9 “when mediocre, going on was that there were some male lawyers who provides such an opportunity, as does participation in untalented women couldn’t stand being questioned toughly by a woman.” a diversity committee, women’s initiative or an event According to Calabresi, “[i]t was sexism in its most planning committee. can get promotions obvious form.” wu was sensitive to the time restraints under which at the same rate wu cautioned that female bosses should not have women work as they try to balance their work and as mediocre, to apologize when asking an employee to do what the home life. However, quoting Optimus Prime (head of employee is paid to do. These women should not have the good guy robots in Transformers 2), Wu noted that untalented men, to preface every request with “please” and “thank you.” “fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.” then we can declare Their failure to extend such courtesies should not be In order to provide balance and increase the likelihood victory.” Until there taken personally. that one will complete a task, Wu suggested that one still, Wu acknowledged that we still live in an era focus on small things. Focus on one thing that you can is change, we— where a woman in a position of power represents all do to get yourself or another woman ahead. This can women—need to women. When a woman does a bad job, an employer be as simple as having lunch with a younger colleague, support the women may take away the lesson that it is not worth the “risk” of attending a happy hour, speaking up at a meeting putting another woman in that position. This is “silly” or inviting a potential client to coffee. “Think small” around us and according to Wu. All white men are not judged by the because you might actually complete your task and those above us. acts of Hitler, Stalin, Ken Lay, Bernie Madoff and Charles remember that “every time a woman advances in the “When they do well, Manson. Wu once heard someone say that “we’ll only work place, an angel gets her wings.” have true equality when a woman can get ahead not by To conclude, Wu made a toast to everyone in the room: we all win.” being twice as good as a man at a particular job, but by being just as bad as a man.” Wu continued that “when To all of you in this room; mediocre, untalented women can get promotions at the same rate as mediocre, untalented men, then we can To your mothers, aunts, grandmothers, and all the declare victory.” Until there is change, we—women— women who preceded you; need to support the women around us and those above us. “When they do well, we all win.” To your daughters, nieces, granddaughters, and all the wu provided a roadmap for those seeking to do young women who will come after you; their part, encouraging attendees to focus on the fundamentals and strive to be the best that they can To all the successes and failures that got us here, and to be. Every task should be viewed and welcomed as an those we’ll have in the years to come; opportunity to take on a new challenge and improve one’s skills. Wu cautioned that one cannot control every Let us toast our past, our present and our future; aspect of her environment (i.e., rumors, office politics, layoffs, etc.); however, one can control what she does Let us remember that we’re all in this together, and that during the work day. Focus on those things you can we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. control and you’ll do fine—more or less. wu encouraged her audience to take reasonable risks, realizing that you may fail some of the time but accepting that you will learn from those mistakes. Wu strongly encouraged attendees to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. “Having something in your life besides your job will make you a more well-rounded person and ultimately a better lawyer.” Accordingly, Wu recommended that women find their individual passion. Be it the law or something else, one will find time for her true passion, and that passion will add excitement, wonder and adventure to her life. To advance the goal of “women helping women,” Wu also encouraged women to become involved and support efforts to promote a more livable workplace. Mentoring
10 National Association of Women Lawyers : the voice of women in the law The Blackberry: Friend or Foe
By Lori L. Pines
Lori L. Pines is a Partner in the Litigation Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where she is a member of the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice Group and continues to play a central role in managing the defense of some of the nation’s most complex and public disputes on behalf of major clients in numerous industries including healthcare and energy/commercial power. Lori is the Chair of Weil, Gotshal’s global Litigation Training program, a member of the Firm’s Professional Development Committee, and a dedicated Career Development Partner and Mentor, as well as the chairman of bar association subcommittees for the New York City Bar’s Committee on Women and the Profession and the American Bar Association’s Health Law Litigation Committee. Lori has two sons, ages 6 and 10, and proudly serves as an Advisory Committee Member of the Sloane Hospital for Women at New York (Columbia Presbyterian), on the Leadership Gifts Committee of the Collegiate School in NYC, and as a Co-Chair of her graduating class at Harvard College. Lori received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, and has an M.P.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a B.A. in Biology from Harvard College, where she graduated with Honors.
There is no polite way to say it—my kids hate my at the same time. My clients and colleagues are none Being able to blackberry. My four-year-old tried to break it once; he the wiser when I respond to them from the bleachers use it anywhere spiked it into the bathroom floor. Cradled in its red or the beauty salon. [As an aside, I have never really leather Sena case, my blackberry survived the attack. understood why some blackberry users are so insistent means you can be To my kids, my blackberry means I am not really about concluding their emails with the telling tag line: anywhere when there even when I am with them. They must feel that “sent via blackberry.” Trying to explain away a typo in you use it—like the they have to compete with it for my attention. an e-mail by attributing it to creation on the blackberry I confess that sometimes I hate my blackberry too. It never helps appease clients anyway, so why give up the supermarket or my calls out to me at all hours of the day and night—and anonymity of location?] sons’ soccer games. makes it virtually impossible to unplug. No more can Furthermore, with a blackberry in hand, there is No other device I honestly say that I will be “out-of-pocket until…..” usually no need for me to lug a laptop when I travel— With a blackberry in my pocket or pocketbook, I am and we all know how much fun laptops can be in has both freed and never really out-of-pocket. airport security lines where they receive particular enslaved me at the Plus, it’s a chore to have to keep it charged all the attention from TSA personnel. Blackberries are also same time. time. And, despite having been given a fancy, upgraded great for sending a quick message to a friend or to my model, I still find it difficult and f-r-u-s-t-r-a-t-i-n-g kids’ babysitters. I have made countless, well-planned to retrieve attachments and long messages, especially and successful play dates for my children with the help in areas of spotty service (like that endless stretch of of my trusty blackberry. Connecticut that lies smack in the middle of a road or so how do I combat the biggest blackberry downside train trip from New York to Boston). of all: the rage my blackberry virtually always invokes But sometimes, I really do love my blackberry. Being in my kids (and occasionally stirs in my husband, who able to use it anywhere means you can be anywhere when is also a blackberry user)? It has definitely helped me to you use it—like the supermarket or my sons’ soccer establish the following blackberry Code of Conduct and games. No other device has both freed and enslaved me to try to adhere to the Code whenever possible:
WLJ : Women Lawyers Journal : 2010 Vol. 95 No. 1 11 Should your kids still protest your usage Lori’s Blackberry Code of Conduct of the blackberry even when you 1. No blackberry use during meals have done your very Take the time to actually enjoy and experience your food. As I have read in many diet books, you are likely to eat less if you eat mindfully. Moreover, observing this provision of the Code will facilitate your best to refrain (and ability to engage in meaningful conversations with your dining partners. most likely they will), remind them that 2. No blackberry use while taking the kids to or from school This can be a special time to bond with your child. Don’t let the blackberry rob you of that opportunity. without it you really would still be in 3. No blackberry use during other family time the office. We all know that our children are growing up quickly: at some point they won’t want to play or spend time with us. So be with your kids (not with your blackberry!) when you are spending time with them.
4. Never set the blackberry to buzz when an email is received You know you will check it anyway. Furthermore, given the volume of emails I receive in a single day, the buzzing would drive me crazy and would surely annoy others.
5. Cease blackberry use for the evening after 8 pm I admit that I break this rule a lot. I usually sneak a peak after I put the kids to bed. But, at least I admit it and am trying.
6. No checking the blackberry in the middle of the night This one is really more about my husband than my kids. Apparently nothing disturbs his sleep more than hearing the “clicking” of the keys on my blackberry—it reminds him of the unopened e-mails from all corners of the globe that are likely to be accumulating on his own device.
7. Checking the blackberry should never be the first thing you do in the morning or the last thing you do before going to bed Say good morning or good night to a family member instead. Take a deep breath. Reflect on all the positive aspects of your life. Try to do all of those good things described in stress relief manuals—none of which involve checking e-mails.
8. Do not check your blackberry while driving or walking down the street This is purely a safety issue, but you do want to be there to see your kids grow up, don’t you?
The Code of Conduct is designed to establish reasonable prescribed by the Code. But when they do, you should and appropriate limits on blackberry use. It is important still keep the Code in mind, and do your best to limit to set limits on blackberry use. Indeed, there is a reason blackberry use to what is absolutely necessary. Should people sometimes jokingly refer to the blackberry as the your kids still protest your usage of the blackberry even “crackberry”—once you start checking your e-mails, it when you have done your very best to refrain (and most is hard to stop. likely they will), remind them that without it you really of course, emergencies do happen, and it may be would still be in the office. They will still hate your necessary to use the blackberry on a wider basis than blackberry—but maybe they won’t try to break it.
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Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree
By Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree Reviewed by Deborah Froling
Before reading “Justice Older than the Law,” I had of 1919, Dovey, her mother and sisters went to live with McCabe and never heard of Dovey Johnson Roundtree. I find that her grandmother and grandfather, a minister. It was life Dovey are as astonishing since I’m a news junkie, have spent close to with her grandmother that shaped Dovey’s life and it 25 years in the Washington, D.C. area and 23 of those was with her grandmother that Dovey first experienced unlikely a pair years steeped in the D.C. legal profession. However, racism in the Jim Crow south. It was from this same as you will ever the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree—from Charlotte, woman that Dovey was armed against the exclusion she see but their North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia to Washington, faced most of her life. D.C.—from the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps to Dovey’s story is the story of a lifetime of courage, a collaboration Howard University Law School to ordained minister story about how one person can change the world and results in a book in the A.M.E. church—and the people with whom the story of a woman who had great mentors and took that is much more she associated—Mary McLeod Bethune, James Nabrit full advantage of all the opportunities those mentors and Joyce Hens Green, among many others—is a story guided her towards. From Dovey’s first teacher, her than just a story of about a woman who had enough courage for five or six grandmother, to Edythe Wimbish, her eighth-grade Dovey’s life and a lifetimes. The book is an awe-inspiring tale—it’s part teacher in Charlotte who first set her sights onS pelman history of the civil story of a woman growing up in the Jim Crow south, part College, to Mary Mae Neptune, a white professor story of a woman who serves her country even though of English literature at Spelman who took special rights movement. her country does not really want her to, it’s part story of interest in Dovey, to Mary McLeod Bethune, a friend It is a universal a woman who joined and changed the legal profession of Grandma Rachel’s and President of the National story about one in Washington, D.C. and it’s part story of a woman who Council on Negro Women in DC and James Nabrit, her became an ordained minister in a church that resisted professor at Howard Law School, Dovey was guided and woman’s journey her full participation. It’s all of those things and none nurtured and challenged throughout her life. That she through life during of those things. The story is about universal truths that accomplished so much is not a surprise—but how she a very tumultuous apply to all of us—these truths happen to come in the did it and what she did is enough for five people, not life’s journey of one spectacularly courageous woman a diminutive black woman raised in Charlotte, North time in our country. named Dovey Johnson Roundtree. Carolina in the 1920s and 1930s. I was fortunate enough to not only to be able to as a black woman raised in the south, Dovey faced read and review the book but also meet with co-author enormous challenges at every turn. Dovey could have Katie McCabe and interview her for this article. The quit fighting at any time but she didn’t. When Dovey, at process of writing the book took more than ten years Edythe Wimbish’s and her mother’s urging, set her mind and I must say it was time well spent. The book was an to attending Spelman, she could have been thwarted by enthralling read from beginning to end. McCabe and the lack of money and the real danger of being in Atlanta Dovey are as unlikely a pair as you will ever see but their at the time, but she wasn’t. When she encountered collaboration results in a book that is much more than problems at Spelman, she could have dropped out, just a story of Dovey’s life and a history of the civil rights returned to North Carolina and found work near home. movement. It is a universal story about one woman’s Instead, through the gift of Mary Mae Neptune, she was journey through life during a very tumultuous time in able to stay at Spelman and graduate. Dovey says about our country. Mary Mae, “[t]here is always someone … who would be Dovey is introduced to us first as a child at the feet the miracle maker in your life, if you but believe. Miss of her grandmother, Rachel. Those feet were broken, Neptune was that person for me.” Upon graduation, gnarled and misshapen—the result of a beating by a Dovey went to teach in Chester, South Carolina to earn white slave master. Her grandmother was Dovey’s first money to help out her family, and while she could have beacon. After Dovey’s father died in the flu epidemic been content to do that for the remainder of her days,
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In telling her she was not. Over time, Dovey’s restlessness grew and, had chosen a different path. So, in 1947, Dovey alone mother and in 1941, she headed to Washington, and called on Dr. entered Howard University Law School on the GI bill, as Mary McLeod Bethune, that friend of her grandmother. one of five women in her class. grandmother about When Dr. Bethune decided that Dovey should be in when Dovey arrived at Howard, the discrimination her assignment in the first class of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was as strong as it was in the military. This time, however, California, Dovey (WAAC), Dovey could have decided not to answer the discrimination was due more to her gender than that call. Instead, Dovey decided to join the WAAC her race. At registration, Dovey was asked repeatedly said “I felt myself and subject herself to the injustices foisted upon her whether it was her brother, husband or father that was torn in the way that in the military. When the blossoming integration was registering for school on the GI bill. It was inconceivable was to define my threatened immediately prior to Dovey and the others to many that Dovey would be enrolling for herself, as a in the first WAAC class taking their re-enlistment oath, woman and as a military veteran. life as a woman for Dovey, alone, stood prepared to resign her commission Given the title, this is where I thought the book would the next sixty years.” rather than accept a segregated unit. Dovey said “the have started. I expected to read about many of the cases idea of America was worth fighting for, however ugly its that Dovey tried throughout her long legal career in great present reality. Now, finally, I had come to that myself.” detail. While that might have been interesting for a lawyer, after the war ended, rather than head home to this book was not written just for lawyers. This is not solely North Carolina or resume her teaching career, Dovey a book about what cases Dovey won and lost but the story began work as a recruiter for A. Philip Randolph’s Fair of a journey that began in North Carolina and ended up Employment Practices Committee. In telling her mother in Washington, D.C. amongst the most powerful people and grandmother about her assignment in California, in the civil rights movement and beyond. However, since Dovey said “I felt myself torn in the way that was to being a lawyer is a large part of her journey, there are two define my life as a woman for the next sixty years.” cases detailed in the book—Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach It was during her time working for the Fair Company and Ray Crump. Sarah Keys was a 22 year old Employment Practices Committee that Dovey, with the WAC member who had been thrown off a bus by the driver help of Pauli Murray, a young lawyer who later joined in the middle of the night and left to fend for herself in a forces with Betty Friedan and founded the National little North Carolina town in the middle of nowhere after Organization of Women, realized the answer was in the she refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a law—“it was the law, misapplied, twisted, disingenuously white marine. After Ms. Keys refused to give up her seat, interpreted that had generated the monstrosity known the bus driver off-loaded all of the passengers from the as separate but equal.” Dovey’s decision to go to law bus and loaded them onto another bus but when Sarah school was a departure from her long-held plans to go to Keys tried to board, the bus driver slammed the door in medical school and Bill Roundtree, her love at Spelman her face. When Sarah ran into the station for help, which who re-appeared in Dovey’s life after the war ended, she didn’t receive, she went up to a police officer at the was solidly behind her—even talking about studying station and begged for help. Instead, she was accused of law together. Dovey struggled with her decision to disorderly conduct and thrown into jail for the night and marry Bill and have children against her desire to promptly the next morning, was convicted of disorderly pursue a career in law—concerned that she couldn’t do conduct by the mayor who praised the local police for both—a struggle that continues to this day for many. their vigilance. The incident, for Dovey, was reminiscent Pauli Murray told her Dovey that, of course she could, of her own experience in Miami nine years before when and so Bill and Dovey were married on Christmas Eve she was recruiting for the army and was thrown off a in Chicago and then left for Portland, Oregon, where bus. It also brought back memories of a recent incident Dovey continued her FEPC work. Unfortunately, on a train experienced by her mother and grandmother Dovey notes that “Bill in his truest heart wanted a returning home to North Carolina from D.C. and for woman quite different from the one I’d become [and] whom Dovey was unable to obtain justice. Appearing ... somewhere in the winter months in Portland, I began before the Interstate Commerce Commission, Dovey and to sense that, much as we cared for each other, we were her law partner, Julius, set out to desegregate interstate moving on different tracks altogether.” When Dovey travel while Thurgood Marshall and others were pursuing and Bill moved back to Washington so that Dovey could Brown v. Board of Education and other desegregation cases enroll in Howard Law School, it became clear that Bill in the Supreme Court.
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winning the Sarah Keys case cemented Dovey’s the understanding that neither the law nor my intellect “I’d gone into reputation in legal circles, but the Ray Crump case was could provide. No case, before or since, consumed me the trial with the the one that made her the darling of D.C. Ray Crump in quite the same way. And no case left me so changed.” sense that I was was accused of the C&O Canal murder of Mary Pinchot It was the beginning of “the kind of success of which Meyer, a woman of power and privilege—she was the many lawyers dream.” Dovey had cases, notoriety and being tested and sister-in-law of Newsweek’s Washington Bureau Chief, respect. Dovey noted, “I’d gone into the trial with the watched by many Ben Bradlee. Mary’s ex-husband was a top CIA official sense that I was being tested and watched by many who who resented my and there were rumors that she had had an affair with resented my presence in such a high profile case, but I President John Kennedy. Ray Crump, on the other felt, afterwards, that at last I’d won acceptance, and in presence in such hand, was a child-man, who was described as puny so doing, helped to make a way for young attorneys of a high profile case, and slow-witted. Previously, he had been beaten and every color.” but I felt, afterwards, robbed, causing him to suffer blackouts and headaches. If that were not enough, Dovey decided that she He also drank too much but he worked when he could needed to pursue the ministry—something about the that at last I’d won and provided for his family. His mother begged Dovey practice of law left her wanting more. Her decision to acceptance, and to take on this seemingly unwinnable case. According pursue the ministry, however, needed the approval of the in so doing, helped to Dovey, Ray was “incapable” of committing this crime two most important women in her life—her mother and of which he had been accused. Dovey notes that her her grandmother. When Dovey told her grandmother to make a way for presence on the case “irritated and threatened many of she wanted to go into the ministry, her grandma said young attorneys of the white judges and lawyers in the courthouse, male simply “if you don’t, you will die.” And while it seems every color.” and female alike.” At this time in history, black lawyers simple enough, at the time Dovey started studying for were expected to lose these types of trials and therefore, the ministry, the AME church did not allow women were not sought out even by blacks to defend them to have full ministerial rights. By the time Dovey was in court. The Ray Crump case, thought by all to be a ready, however, so was the AME church, having decided lost cause, was, in Dovey’s mind, one that never should to grant women those full ministerial rights. Dovey was have come to trial. A man’s life was at stake and Dovey a trailblazer in the church, just as she was in everything was going to use everything she had to make sure he else she did. won. Dovey said, “[i]n the eight months during which There is so much else in the book that can’t be covered I had Raymond Crump in my keeping, and the eight in this brief review but I would commend everyone to days of the trial when I acted as his advocate at the bar read the book in its entirety. It is a fascinating read, for of justice, I reached into every part of my mind, drew lawyers and non-lawyers alike. It is a moving story, a upon nearly every area of my legal training, tapped universal story and it is told exceptionally well. every recess of my heart, and looked into my soul for
Dovey Johnson Roundtree is a retired lawyer, an Army veteran, and an A.M.E. minister. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Katie McCabe is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Washingtonian Magazine, Baltimore Magazine and Reader’s Digest, among others. Her National Magazine Award-winning article on black medical legend Vivien Thomas was the basis for the HBO film Something the Lord Made, winner of three Emmys and a 2005 Peabody Award.
Deborah Froling is a partner with Arent Fox LLP in Washington, D.C. She has been a member of the Executive Board of NAWL for the past four years and currently serves as its Treasurer-Elect and editor of the Women Lawyers Journal.
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Upcoming NAWL Programs
November 4 & 5, 2010 This premier program for senior in-house women lawyers will celebrate its 6th Annual General sixth-year hosting hundreds of attendees from all regions of the country Counsel Institute and beyond. The Institute will provide participants a unique opportunity Westin New York at to learn from leading experts and experienced legal colleagues about the Times Square pressure points and measurements of success for general counsel in a supportive and interactive environment. Participants will enjoy plenary New york, ny and workshop sessions with general counsel of major public corporations and other professionals in a collegial atmosphere while also engaging in networking opportunities with other senior legal professionals.
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April 28, 2010 NAWL, K&L Gates and other sponsoring organizations were joined by many National Night of Giving at this charitable networking event benefiting the American Red Cross of in support of American Red Miami Dade County. Cross of Miami Dade County K&L Gates This event was generously sponsored by K&L Gates and co-sponsored by LexisNexis. Miami, Fl
April 22, 2010 NAWL, with General Mills and other sponsoring organizations, sponsored National Night of Giving this charitable networking event benefiting Girls inA ction, an organization in support of Girls in Action which works to decrease and prevent violence among high school girls while General Mills positively engaging them in academics and leadership.
Golden Valley, MN This event was generously sponsored by General Mills and LexisNexis and co-sponsored by the Minnesota Women Lawyers.
April 20, 2010 Many joined NAWL, host Stanley Korshak and other sponsoring National Night of Giving organizations at this charitable networking event benefiting The Family in support of The Family Place Place, a family violence service provider. Hosted by Stanley Korshak This event was generously hosted by Stanley Korshak, and sponsored by Dallas, TX Alston + Bird, Baker McKenzie, Bell Nunnally, Carrington Coleman, Greenburg Traurig, Hermes Sargent Bates, Jackson Lewis, Lexis Nexis, Spencer Crain Cubbage Healy & McNamara, the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, Dallas Women Lawyers Association, Texas Young Lawyers Association and Women’s In-House Network.
February 24, 2010 At its Mid-Year meeting in Dallas, Texas, NAWL awarded the NAWL NAWL Mid-Year Meeting Challenge Award to Dell Inc.’s Legal Department. The NAWL Challenge Welcome Cocktail Reception Award is presented to an in house legal department with policies designed to meet the NAWL Challenge (By 2015, women will represent 30% of law Belo Mansion firm equity partners, 30% of chief legal officers, and 30% of tenured law Dallas, TX school faculty members).
In addition, the NAWL Leadership Award was presented to Chief Justice February 25, 2010 Carolyn Wright. The Leadership Award is presented to high-profile individuals in the community whose personal contributions advance NAWL Mid-Year Meeting women lawyers and promote diversity in the legal profession. Luncheon and CLE Programs The Fairmont Dallas Dallas, TX
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Selma Moidel Smith, who is both a lawyer and composer, NAWL member Amy Festante was honored by the Pro celebrated the performance of her suite for orchestra, Bono Partnership as one of its Volunteers of the Year Espressivo, at the May 3 concert of the Los Angeles Lawyers for 2009. Amy provided assistance to many New Jersey Philharmonic. The concert, which also included works clients in 2009, but she provided critical assistance to two by Bach, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Bernstein, took place New Jersey childcare centers — The Children’s Corner at the Los Angeles County Law Library and was co- of West Orange and The Children’s House, a preschool sponsored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association in Verona, NJ. Amy Festante works in Kelley, Drye & as part of their Law Week events. Conductor Gary S. Warren’s Parsippany, NJ office, where her practice focuses Greene, Esq., introduced Smith from the podium, and on Real Estate. She is a NAWL member and a member of noted both her legal and musical activities: “In the field the Practicing Attorneys for Law Students Program, Inc. of law, she is a past president of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, a Fellow of the American Brooksley E. Born of Washington, D.C., long a leader in the Bar Foundation, the honoree of the annual Selma organized bar, was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Service Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition of the Award by The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation National Association of Women Lawyers, and is currently at its 54th Annual Awards Reception and Banquet at the first woman editor-in-chief of California Legal the Isleworth Country Club, Windermere, Florida. The History, the annual journal of the California Supreme Outstanding Service Award is given annually to a Fellow Court Historical Society. In the area of music, she is of the American Bar Foundation who has, in his or her a composer whose works have been performed locally professional career, adhered for more than 30 years to the and nationally, and she is listed in the International highest principles and traditions of the legal profession Encyclopedia of Women Composers.” and to the service of the public.
NAWL member Ghillaine Reed was awarded one of the Born became a national figure for her role as chair 40 Under-Forty Black Achievement Awards. On June 17, from 1996-99 of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading 2010, The Network Jounal hosted the 40 Under-Forty Commission, the agency that oversees futures and Black Achievement Awards at the Crowne Plaza Hotel commodity option markets. During her tenure she in Manhattan’s Times Square. Launched in June 1998, warned against unregulated financial practices and The Network Journal’s 40 Under-Forty Black Achievement strongly advocated for federal regulation of the over-the- Awards honors men and women under 40 years old counter derivatives market. These unregulated practices whose professional accomplishments have significantly have been cited as leading to the 2008 financial crisis. impacted an industry or profession, and who also have Born retired after more than 30 years at the Washington made an important contribution to their community. law firmA rnold & Porter LLP, where she headed the firm’s derivatives practice. Born is a noted advocate for women’s NAWL Board Member Anita Wallace Thomas was awarded rights, civil rights and the rights of the indigent. She chairs the Outstanding Women in the Profession Achievement the board and was a founding member of the National Award by the Atlanta Bar Association’s-Women in the Women’s Law Center. Born also served on the boards of Profession Section at an event held on June 8, 2010 in the ABA, the ABF and ALI-ABA and chaired a number of Atlanta. ABA entities including the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, the Women’s Caucus and the Standing Lisa Gilford, President of the National Association of Committee on the Federal Judiciary. She received her law Women Lawyers, was named one of the Daily Journal’s degree from Stanford Law School, where she was president leading women litigators in California for 2010 . of the Stanford Law Review.
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Schoeman, Updike & Kaufman, LLP, the largest certified certified DRC mediator. Ms. Holland received her B.A. women-owned law firm in the country, was honored at from Wittenberg University where she graduated cum the Transformative Leadership Awards Dinner, held in laude in 1976, and her J.D. from Wake Forest University Chicago, Illinois on May 24, 2010. The dinner, hosted in 1979 where she was a member of the Wake Forest by Inside Counsel Magazine, recognized 12 women Law Review and the Wake Forest Moot Court Board. attorneys who have assisted other women in moving into leadership roles in the legal community. The M. Robin Davis brings nearly 20 years of experience awards celebrated the accomplishments of individual to Jackson Lewis. Ms. Davis represents employers attorneys, and what they have done to mentor and in a broad spectrum of employment related issues economically empower other women lawyers. including personnel policies, employment contracts, restrictive covenants, employee training sessions, Schoeman, Updike & Kaufman, LLP, with offices inN ew investigations, discrimination and harassment claims. York and Chicago, was given an award in the category Ms. Davis also regularly advises and represents cities, of women-owned law firms. Partner Beth L. Kaufman towns, counties and quasi-governmental boards and accepted the award on behalf of the Firm. At present, agencies throughout the state of North Carolina on although the Firm is approximately half women and employment and personnel matters specific to public half men, 100% of the equity is owned by women, who entity employers. These areas include due process also occupy the principal leadership positions in firm claims, constitutional torts, open meeting laws, public management. Ms. Kaufman expressed particular thanks records laws and grievance hearings. Ms. Davis is a for the leadership and support of partners Mindy H. certified DRC Mediator. Ms. Davis received her B.A. Stern and Stephanie A. Scharf, managers of the New from the University of Louisville where she graduated York and Chicago offices, respectively. with honors in 1987, and her J.D. from Georgetown University in 1990. Jackson Lewis, one of the largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms in the United States with more than For over ten years, Ann H. Smith has been practicing 600 attorneys in 45 offices, announced that three female defense litigation in Raleigh, North Carolina. She partners and two associates from the Raleigh office of primarily focuses her practice in the areas of employment, Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP have joined the firm, education, and municipal and police law. She handles a significantly increasing the firm’s presence in the greater wide variety of employment matters before both federal Raleigh area and the state of North Carolina. Patricia L. and state courts and agencies relating to federal statutes Holland, M. Robin Davis, and Ann H. Smith joined the firm as such as the ADA, FLSA, the FMLA, Title VII, and ERISA Partners, together with two associates, Allison Serafin and as well as state and local employment laws. She is Paul Holscher, and an experienced supporting staff. With also a certified DRC Mediator. Ms. Smith earned her this addition, Jackson Lewis will have 10 attorneys in their B.A. from North Carolina State University where she Raleigh office, making it one of the largest specialized labor graduated summa cum laude in 1991, and her J.D. from and employment legal practices in the region. the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she graduated with high honors in 1996. Patricia L. Holland is a prominent A.V. rated North Carolina litigator and employment law leader. A Andrews Kurth LLP announced that Thomas A. Sage has former Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern joined the Houston office as a Partner in the Public District of North Carolina, she brings to Jackson Lewis Law practice group. Tom counsels both issuers and significant expertise in a wide range of litigation and underwriters in almost every aspect of tax-exempt workplace law matters, including significant litigation financing and infrastructure development. His primary experience in the North Carolina Federal and State areas of emphasis include traditional bond issues, courts, as well as before administrative agencies such as charter school finance, municipal utility district the EEOC, the N.C. Department of Labor and the N.C representation and general infrastructure finance. Tom Employment Security Commission. Ms. Holland is a regularly serves as bond counsel for many Texas cities,
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counties and school districts as well as special utility She is a member of the State Bar of Nevada as well as the districts. Tom earned his J.D., magna cum laude, in Clark County and Utah State bar associations. Lavelle 1999 from the University of Houston Law Center and earned her J.D. from the University of Utah in 1976, his Masters of Administrative Science, cum laude, from where she was a moot court finalist. She earned her The University of Montana in 1994. He received his B.S. B.A. from the University of Utah, magna cum laude, in from The United States Air Force Academy in 1991 and 1973. She is an LL.M. candidate at the Straus Institute served as an officer in The United States Air Force from for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School 1991-1996. of Law, and is writing her LL.M. thesis on dispute resolution relating to commercial construction Nathelie Ashby has also joined the firm as an Associate in the Public Law practice group. Nathelie regularly Vedder Price P.C. announced that Amy L. Bess, former represents cities, school districts, charter schools and Managing Partner of Sonnenschein’s D.C. office and water districts in municipal finance transactions. a member of that firm’s Litigation and Labor and Nathelie also represents municipal utility districts Employment Law practices, joined its Washington, as general counsel and assists in representation of D.C. office as a Shareholder. Ms. Bess defends investment banking firms as underwriters’ counsel. employers against claims of race, sex, disability and Nathelie earned her J.D. in 2006 from The University of age discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblowing, Texas and her B.S. from Texas State University in 2000. wrongful termination and wage and hour violations. Her work involves both day-to-day counseling on these Duane Morris LLP announced that Eleissa C. Lavelle matters as well as the representation of management joined the firm in its Las Vegas office as a partner in in federal and state courts and a wide range of its Construction and Trial Practice Groups. Lavelle administrative agencies. Bess is a graduate of Illinois represents owners, developers, financial institutions, State University (B.S., summa cum laude, 1982) and contractors and subcontractors in a broad range of Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1987), commercial construction; local, state and federal Ms. Bess also represents employers in matters where government contract matters and real estate matters. She employees violate employment agreements or attempt represents clients in litigation disputes involving large to misappropriate trade secrets. She has extensive trial commercial projects, licensing matters and contract and arbitration experience. Ms. Bess is a member of drafting, and also with respect to issues arising during the the Bars of Illinois and the District of Columbia. She course of construction. Lavelle also handles arbitration is a member of the American Bar Association (Section and mediation of real estate, construction and other on Labor and Employment) and serves on the Board of commercial disputes, and has experience helping clients Governors of the District of Columbia Bar. She is an create and develop common-interest communities. active member of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia and former member of the Board Previously, Lavelle served as the State Bar of Nevada’s of Directors of that organization. She serves as General first bar counsel, as a deputy attorney general for the Counsel and is a board member of Everybody Wins! Nevada Department of Transportation and as a law D.C.— a non-profit children’s literacy organization. clerk for the Hon. John F. Mendoza of the Eighth Judicial District Court of Clark County, Nevada.
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NAWL Recognizes
Law Firm Members Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Pierce Stronczer Law LLC Phoenix School of Law Jacobson, LLP Porzio, Bromberg & Newman PC University of Idaho College of Law Giffen & Kaminski, LLC A. Kershaw PC, Attorneys & Reed Smith LLP University of Minnesota Goodwin Procter LLP Law School Consultants Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland Adorno & Yoss Gordon, Hargrove & James, P.A. & Perretti LLP University of Missouri-Columbia Alston + Bird LLP Greenberg Traurig, LLP Sachitano Strent Hostetter LLC Wake Forest School of Law Arent Fox LLP Griffith, Sadler & Sharp, PA Schmoyer Reinhard LLP Western New England College School of Law Axiom Hall Estill Schoeman Updike & Kaufman LLP Andrews Kurth Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP Shook Hardy & Bacon Hollingsworth LLP Baker & McKenzie LLP Bar Association Sidley Austin LLP Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Jones Day Members Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Caldwell, & Berkowitz, PC K & L Gates Beery, Elsner & Hammond, LLP Slate Carter Comer PLLC Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Arizona Women Lawyers Spencer Crain Cubbage Healy & Bodyfelt, Mount, Stroup, Et Al Kirkland & Ellis LLP Association McNamara PLLC Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP KSJ Law, LLC Arkansas Association of Women Starnes Davis Florie LLP Lawyers Bondurant,Mixson & Elmore, LLP Kuchler Polk Steptoe & Johnson LLP California Women Lawyers Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. Kutak Rock LLP Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Florida Association for Women Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Lash & Goldberg, LLP Stites & Harbison, PLLC Lawyers Brune & Richard LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP Georgia Association For Women Bryan Cave LLP Lebow, Malecki & Tasch LLC Lawyers, Inc. Tatum Hillman Hickerson & Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Leonard, Street & Deinard Powell, LLP Hawaii Women Lawyers Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP Lindabury, McCormick, The Wolfe Practice ITechLaw Carlton Fields, PA Estabrook & Cooper P.C. The Wolford Law Firm LLP Lawyers Club of San Diego Chapman and Cutler LLP Lowenstein Sandler P.C. Townsend and Townsend and Minnesota Women Lawyers Chester Wilcox & Saxbe, LLP Magdich & Associates, PC Crew LLP National Asian Pacific American Cooper & Walinski, L.P.A. Mayer Brown LLP Troutman Sanders LLP Bar Association Cox & Osowiecki, LLC McCarter & English LLP Vedder Price P.C. New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association Crowell & Moring LLP McCarthy Tetrault LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP New Jersey Women Lawyers Davis & Gilbert LLP McDermott Will & Emery LLP Williams Mullen Clark & Dobbins Association Dickstein Shapiro LLP McDonald Law Group, LLC WilmerHale North Carolina Association of DLA Piper McDonnell & Associates Winston & Strawn LLP Women Attorneys Dorsey & Whitney LLP McGuireWoods LLP Ohio Women’s Bar Association Dow Lohnes PLLC McKool Smith Oregon Women Lawyers Law School Members Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP McNair Law Firm, P.A. Virginia Women Attorneys Association Drinker Biddle & Realth LLP Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Chapman University School Women Lawyers Association of Duane Morris LLP of Law Michigan Nixon Peabody LLP Dykema Gossett Hofstra Law School Women Lawyers of Sacramento O’Brien Jones, PLLC Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Lewis & Clark Law School Women’s Bar Association of the Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak LLP District of Columbia & Stewart, P.C. Loyola University Chicago Epstein Becker & Green, PC Law School Women’s Bar Association of the Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Farnsworth & Vonberg LLP State of New York Northeastern University Parsons, Lee & Juliano, P.C. Fenwick & West LLP Oklahoma City University Peckar & Abramson, PC Fine, Kaplan and Black, R.P.C.
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NAWL Recognizes
NAWL thanks Corporate Legal 2010 Program Sponsors Department Members
Allstate Insurance Company AT&T Inc. Premier Sponsors Cox Communications, Inc. DLA Piper Jones Day MetLife Dell Inc. Diageo NA / Legal Department Fidelity Investments General Mills Law Department gold Sponsors Hellerman Baretz John Deere & Company Law Alston + Bird LLP Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Department Andrews Kurth LLP Merck & Co. LexisNexis Marsha Redmon Crowell & Moring McCarter & English Communications Dickstein Shapiro LLP Ogletree Deakins Merck & Co., Inc. Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP White & Case LLP The Clorox Company Legal Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP Department United Parcel Services Legal Department Valero Energy Corporation Sponsors Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Legal Department Adorno & Yoss LexisNexis Allstate Insurance Marsha Redmon Communications Baker & McKenzie LLP Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Carlton Fields McDermott Will & Emery LLP Cooper & Dunham LLP Nixon Peabody LLP Duane Morris LLP Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Edwards Angell Palmer & LLP Dodge LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Prudential General Mills Schoeman Updike & Hellerman Baretz Kaufman, LLP Communications LLC Sidley Austin LLP Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP Starnes Davis Florie LLP Hodgson Russ LLP Steptoe & Johnson, LLP Jackson Lewis Townsend and Townsend Johnston Barton and Crew LLP JPMorgan Chase Troutman Sanders LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Winston & Strawn LLP Latham & Watkins LLP
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Outstanding Law Students
NAWL congratulates the 2010 Outstanding Law Students. Selected by their law schools as the outstanding law students of their class, these talented and dedicated awardees are among the best and brightest.
Honored not only for academic achievements, these students were also chosen for the impact they made in areas beyond the classroom. The men and women listed below have worked to further the advancement of women in society and promoted issues and concerns of women in the legal profession with motivation, tenacity and enthusiasm that inspired both their fellow students and law professors.
NAWL is for women and men who want to change the world. We salute these individuals who have begun working early in their careers to promote justice for women, and we encourage them to continue making a difference as their careers blossom.
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Sheena Baylon Robin Daleo Brittany J. Flowe Sonie Marie Haneline Salmon P. Chase College of Law Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Walter F. George School of Law Loyola University, Los Angeles Northern Kentucky University Touro College Mercer University Law School
Jessica Beaver Nikki Uyen Dinh Janine Franey Karla J. Hardy University of Baltimore Golden Gate University Drexel University University of Virginia School of Law School of Law College of Law School of Law
Danielle Robinson Briand Ilisha Diana Dowel Shannon Fyfe Danielle Hawkes Quinnipiac University Valpraraiso University Vanderbilt University S.J. Quinney College of Law School of Law School of Law Law School University of Utah
Jamie S. Bumbarger Liu Duan Catherine Heffernan The Dickinson School of Law Duquesne University University of Pittsburgh Penn State University Law School G School of Law
Uzma Burney Carollann Gamino Kelli Hilgenfeld University of Michigan Oklahoma City University University of Oklahoma Law School E School of Law College of Law
Hayley Ellison Sara Gapasin Megan M. Hudson St. Mary’s University Chapman University University of Cincinnati C School of Law School of Law College of Law
Kristen Chittenden Lauren J. Ellison Jeanne R. Glasscock Gabrielle Hughes Stentson University Cumberland School of Law Brandeis School of Law Seton Hall University College of Law Samford University University of Louisville School of Law
Alissa R. Collins Rebecca Emory Jaci Gonzales Charleston School of Law Pace University West Virginia University Law School College of Law I Cara Cookson Vermont Law School Ann Etwistle Sarah E. Green Megan M. Ivanov University of Minnesota Boston University Norman Adrian Wiggins School Sally Robinson Corley Law School School of Law of Law Thomas Goode Jones School Campbell University of Law Sarah E. Greenlee Faulkner University Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Outstanding Law Students
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Teresa Gail Jacobs Anne Marie Pippin McLean A. Thompson University of Oregon University of Georgia University of South Dakota School of Law School of Law School of Law
Shakeba R. Johnson Carla Shields Pool Melissa L. Thompson Appalachian School of Law University of Richmond Capital University School of Law Law School Darlene Jolibois Thomas M. Cooley School of Law Annaleigh E. Porter Syracus University College of Law V
M Johanna Valenzuela University of South Carolina Christyne Martens R School of Law University of Wyoming College of Law Bethany Reich Ashley Vincent Florida Coastal Cornell Law School Marti Jo McCaleb School of Law Washington and Lee University School of Law Felicia Rovegno St. John’s University W Claire Ann McDaniel School of Law University of New Mexico Angela Walker School of Law Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Kristen Melomed S Arizona State University University of Akron School of Law Jacqueline Sartoris Keesha Warmsby University of Maine Claude W. Pettit College of Law Mueni Muli School of Law Ohio Northern University North Carolina Central University Susie Sewell Bridget Warner School of Law Wake Forest University Cecil C. Humphrey School of School of Law Law University of Memphis Alison Silber O University of Maryland Dana L. Watts School of Law University of Kansas Meghan O’Connor School of Law Marquette University Linda L. Smith Law School Universit of Tulsa Rebecca Wharton College of Law Marshall-Wythe School of Law Courtney O’Donnell College of William & Mary Emory University Joely F. Stewart School of Law Thurgood Marshall School of Law Melissa Osorio Texas Southern University Y Rutgers Univeristy, Camden School of Law Amanda Stubson Charlotte Youngblood Hamline University Paul M. Hebert Law Center School of Law Louisiana State University
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New Members
From December 1, 2009 through April 30, 2010, the following have become NAWL individual members. Thanks for your support of NAWL.
A Carolynn Beck Nichol Bunn D Falls Church, VA Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Stephanie Aareseth Edelman & Dicker, LLP Doneene Keemer Damon McGeorge School of Law Rebekah Bennett Dallas, TX Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. Galt, CA Jones Day Wilmington, DE Houston, TX Kathleen Burch Pallavi Ahluwalia John Marshall Law School Janice Davis Ahluwalia Law Offices, P.C. Atlanta, GA Bracewell & Giuliani LLP Dallas, TX Jessica Berk Dallas, TX McCarter & English, LLP Anne Burns Kristen M. Aiken Cavazos, Hendricks, Poirot & Melissa Deal D.C. Superior Court Hannah Berkowitz Smitham, P.C. Thompson & Knight LLP Washington, DC Mastercard Worldwide Dallas, TX Dallas, TX Purchase, NY Suzanne Albin Ephron-Mandel Albin & Howard, Bridget A. Blinn Katrina J. Dennis L.L.P. Gruber Hurst Johansen & Hail C Kramon & Graham, P.A. New York, NY Dallas, TX Baltimore, MD Andrea “Nicole” Callanan Ronit D. Appel Jennifer L. Boatwright Update Legal Melissa Deutsch Schoeman Updike & Kaufman Carlson Capital, L.P. Venice, CA DeutschJacobs, A Law Practice LLP Dallas, TX Austin, TX New York, NY Leslie Chaggaris Emily S. Borna Thompson & Knight, LLP Francisca Diaz Jackson Lewis LLP Dallas, TX Orlando, FL Atlanta, GA B Victoria Woodin Chavey Sandra Lauro Dielman Chelsea N. Bossenbroek Jackson Lewis LLP Jones Day Deborah Babalola Law Offices of David K. Barhydt Hartford, CT Plano, TX George Washington Law School Oak Brook, IL Baltimore, MD Lois Colbert Kathleen Dillon Heather Bowman Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Law Offices of Kathleen O’Connor Jennifer Baker Bodyfelt Mount, LLP Charlotte, NC Pasadena, CA O”Melveny & Myers LLP Portland, OR Washington, DC Jennifer Colvin Kristen E. DiMaria Elizabeth Bradshaw Ogletree, Deakin,s Nash,Smoak, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Kila B. Baldwin Dewey & LeBoeuf & Stewart, P.C. & Stewart, P.C. Kline & Specter, P.C. Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, PA Laura McCabe Brandt Marianne H. Combs Tiffany Dou Paula Barnes Hennes & Mauritz L.P. Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Gresham Savage Nolan & MetLife New York, NY Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. Tilden, APC New York, NY Birmingham, AL San Bernardino, CA Laurie E. Brecher Kristin L. Bauer Chappaqua, NY Ana da Costa Melissa L. Dulski Jackson Lewis LLP MetLife American Capital, Ltd. Dallas, TX Jillian Breslow Morristown, NJ Bethesda, MD Stetson University College of Law Laura Baughman St. Petersburg, FL Melodie Craft Baron & Budd, P.C. Littler Mendelson Dallas, TX Angela M. Buchanan Dallas, TX Greenberg Traurig Dallas, TX Pat Curran MetLife New York, NY
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E Jjais A. Forde Erika Green Karen L. Hirschman University of Minnesota Law Loyola Law School Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. Elizabeth Eager School Riverside, CA Dallas, TX Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP Minneapolis, MN Atlanta, GA Andra Barmash Greene Jacqueline Hodes Elizabeth Foster-Fernandez Irell & Manella LLP McDermott Will & Emery LLP Kate Echols Chatham, NJ Newport Beach, CA Miami, FL Texas Wesleyan University School of Law Sarah Fry Jamie Greene Nancy L. Hoffman Fort Worth, TX Morgan Lewis & Bockius Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Mayer Brown LLP Dallas, TX Atlanta, GA New York, NY Kimberly A. Elkjer Scheef & Stone, LLP Francine Friedman Griesing Brandy Hood Dallas, TX Griesing Law, LLC Fulbright & Jaworski G Philadelphia, PA Washington, DC Natasha T. Encarnacion Rutgers University-Camden Law Jennifer Gajak Valerie Gross Angela R. Hoyt School Ajilon Legal McCarter & English, LLP Cotton Schmidt & Abbott, LLP Cherry Hill, NJ Dallas, TX Fort Worth, TX Rachel E. Grossberg Linda S. Ershow-Levenberg Jodyann Galvin Schiatano Strent Hostetter LLC Alison Hurst Fink Rosner Ershow-levenberg, Hodgson Russ LLP Bethesda, MD Law Society of Upper Canada LLC Attorneys at Law Buffalo, NY Toronto, Ontario Clark, NJ
Alina Evangelou Robin Gant H MetLife Kane Russell Coleman & Logan I Chicago, IL Dallas, TX Keanan Hall Cotton Schmidt & Abbott, LLP Nicole Iannarone Marcela Evans Chris Gattuso Fort Worth, TX Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Evans Law Firm Kilpatrick Stockton LLP LLP Dallas, TX Washington, DC Jacqueline K. Hammack Atlanta, GA Tulane University Law School Ashleigh L. Everett Anne Gaza New Orleans, LA Brandy Inman Thompson & Knight, LLP Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. Latham, Wagner, Steele & Dallas, TX Wilmington, DE Molly Elizabeth Hanna Lehman, P.C. Latham, Wagner, Steele & Tulsa, OK Mary Beth Ewen Erika George Lehman, P.C. Kramon & Graham, P.A. Bodyfelt Mount, LLP Tulsa, OK Baltimore, MD Portland, OR Tina Hansard J Donna Gephart Hawkins Parnell & Thackston, Rancho Cucamonda, CA LLP Donna J. Johnson F Dallas, TX Allstate Insurance Company Julie Gershman Northbrook, IL M. Diana Fedoroff MetLife Karen Hart Bodyfelt Mount, LLP New York, NY Bell Nunnally & Martin, LLP Lloyd M. Johnson Jr. Portland, OR Dallas, TX Ansun Management Partners Yvonne Gierczyk-Skasko San Francisco, CA Melissa Fernandez-Stiers AT&T Kathleen Hart University of Miami School of Law Dallas, TX Morgan Melhuish Abrutyn Magdalena Jorquez Coral Gables, FL Livingston, NJ Arizona House of Representatves Faye C. Gifford Phoenix, AZ Heather Fiorella Villanova University Law School Holly S. Hawkins Inside Edge Legal Villanova, PA Alston + Bird LLP Elizabeth Joyner New York, NY Atlanta, GA The Williams Cmpanies, Inc. Jenna Glasscock Tulsa, OK Cynthia G. Fischer University of Louisville, Eve Henson Schnader Harrison Segal & Brandeis School of Law Sayles Webner Christina Jump Lewis LLP Leitchfield, KY Dallas, TX Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & New York, NY Feld LLP Jamie Gottlieb Vanessa Hew Dallas, TX Kristen B. Ford U.S. District Court of NJ Duane Morris LLP Thompson & Knight Newark, NJ New York, NY Houston, TX
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K L Jennifer Martinez N Godwin Ronquillo PC Leah C. Kagan Laura LaBianca Dallas, TX Susan Nassar Kaye Scholer, LLP Oklahoma City University School ELROD PLLC New York, NY of Law Ressa McBride Dallas, TX Oklahoma City, OK Southern University Law Center Katharine Kane Baton Rouge, LA Betsy Neal Andrews Kurth LLP Betsy Lanzen Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Dallas, TX Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Ellen E. McGlynn Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA San Diego, CA Leslie R. Kellogg Micaela Neal Hodgson Russ LLP Kathryn Goldstein Legge Jill Renee McGrail University of the Pacific, Buffalo, NY Griesing Law, LLC Thomas H. Bergman & McGeorge School of Law Philadelphia, PA Associates, LLC Sacramento, CA Carol Kendrick Cincinnati, OH MetLife Mackenzie Lewis Meredith W. Nissen New York, NY Georgia State University College Ann I. Mennell Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP of Law Foley & Lardner LLP Philadelphia, PA Terrel Kent Atlanta, GA Milwaukee, WI Southern University Law Center Lillie Nkenchor Baton Rouge, LA Martha Lewis Teresa Harrold Michaud MetLife Southern University Law Center Baker & McKenzie LLP Somerset, NJ Tsering Kheyap Baton Rouge, LA Dallas, TX Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Laura Notes Palo Alto, CA Jennifer Liotta Julie Anne Miles MetLife Alston + Bird, LLP Department of Homeland New York, NY Deepa Khosla Atlanta, GA Security MetLife Washington, DC Morristown, NJ Ty Lord Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Hannah Minkevitch O Valerie King Atlanta, GA UC Hastings College of the Law Baker Donelson Bearmsn San Francisco, CA Carolyn O’Neal Caldwell & Berkowitz Mary-Olga Lovett Southern University Law Center Atlanta, GA Greenberg Traurig Suzanne L. Montgomery Baton Rouge, LA Houston, TX AT&T Services, Inc. Zina Kiryakos Bedminster, NJ University of Illinois Jessica Langley Lowe P Champaign, IL Winter Park, FL Cecilia H. Morgan JAMS, The Resolution Experts Tammy Pasto Susan S. Kleiner Dallas, TX UDC-David A. Clarke School of Law Langsam Stevens & Silver LLP Fredericksburg, VA Metuchen, NJ M Jennifer Evans Morris Nicole Payseur Kay E. Kochenderfer Beth MacDonald Carrington Coleman Sloman & Dallas, TX Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Alston + Bird LLP Blumenthal, L.L.P. Los Angeles, CA Charlotte, NC Dallas, TX J. Carin Pendergraft Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Sharon Kolbet Ambar I. Malik Sheryl Mumm-Touailat & Stewart, P.C. Dallas, TX Latham, Wagner, Steele & Littler Mendelson Lehman, P.C. Minneapolis, MN Birmingham, AL Charlene C. Koonce Tulsa, OK Rachel Perahia Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. Lynda Murray-Blair Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Dallas, TX Jody L. Malmstrom Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Sachitano Strent Hostetter LLC Decatur, GA Los Angeles, CA Kiko Korn Bethseda, MD Deborah Perry Legal Writing Works Tiana S. Mykkeltuedt Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C Los Angeles, CA Cindy Spindler Manning Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP Alston + Bird LLP Atlanta, GA Dallas, TX Atlanta, GA Lee Peterson Wendy G. Marcari McCarter & English, LLP Epstein Becker & Green P.C. New York, NY Gail Pflederer Stamford, CT Stacey Martin Morgan Management Corp. Mayda Prego Dallas, TX Chevron & Hispanic National Bar Association Coral Gables, FL
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Alison Prout Christine Stanitski W Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP Maura I. Russell Finn Dixon & Herling LLP Atlanta, GA Epstein Becker & Green P.C. Stamford, CT Weslynn Walker New York, NY Weslynn Walker PC Kelly Pruden Rose Stella Dallas, TX Oklahoma City Uiniversity Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP School of Law New York, NY Tanya Greene Wallace Oklahoma City, OK S Shackelford Melton & McKinley Lisa Stenson Dallas, TX Arlen Pyenson Bryana L. Sack MetLife Crowell & Moring LLP Bodyfelt Mount, LLP New York, NY Sarah Ann Walters New York, NY Portland, OR Texas Court of Appeals Barbara Stevens Dallas, TX Mary Webb Pyrdum Rachel Sam The Prudential Insurance Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP Thompson & Knight LLP Company of America Elizabeth M. Webb Atlanta, GA Dallas, TX Roseland, NJ Oklahoma City University Edmond, OK Carol Satterfield Amy Stewart Powell Coleman & Arnold LLP Amy Stewart PC Wendy S. Weingart Q Dallas, TX Dallas, TX The Prudential Insurance Co. of America Michelle Quinn Randi Schnell Lisa Strauss Newark, NJ Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. Bondurant,Mixson & Elmore, LLP Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP Wilmington, DE Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA Jamie L. Wershbale Office of General Counsel, U.S. Mary L. Scott Breen Sullivan Dept. of HUD Irving, TX Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Jacksonville, FL R New York, NY Cassandra Sepanik Heather C. White Carolyn Raines Thompson & Knight Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP Carrington Coleman Sloman & Dallas, TX Charlotte, NC Blumenthal, L.L.P. T Dallas, TX Shailika Shah Frederica J. White Alston + Bird LLP Terri L. Thomas King & Spaulding LLP Monica F. Ramirez Atlanta, GA Navistar, Inc. Atlanta, GA SMU Dedman School of Law Warrenville, IL Farmers Branch, TX Kaaren Shalom Stacie White SMU Dedman School of Law Engle Thompson Alston + Bird LLP Karen Painter Randall Dallas, TX Southern University Law Center Dallas, TX Connell Foley LLP Baton Rouge, LA Roseland, NJ Rosa A. Shirley Lucy Jane Wilson Baker & McKenzie LLP Saint Michael, MN Katharine Battaia Richter Dallas, TX Christina F. Toon Thompson & Knight LLP Latham, Wagner, Steele & Christine L. Wilson Dallas, TX Cecilia Showalter Lehman, P.C. Jackson Lewis LLP McDermott Will & Emery LLP Tulsa, OK Miami, FL Elizabeth Ricks Washington, DC Transformative Justice Law Project Sherry L. Travers Debra Witter Chicago, IL Anne Shuttee Littler Mendelson PC The Witter Law Firm Law Offices of Anne Shuttee Dallas, TX Dallas, TX Stephanie M. Rippee Dallas, TX Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Amanda Woodall Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC Rebecca L. Sigmund Baker Botts L.L.P. V Jackson, MS Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Houston, TX & Stewart, P.C. Chrsitine J. Roberts Atlanta, GA Breanne Michelle Vandermeer Alston + Bird LLP El Segundo, CA Los Angeles, CA Pamela B. Slate Y Slate Carter Comer PLLC Courtney Vaudreuil Aliette D. Rodz Montgomery, AL Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith Sujata Yalamanchili Shutts & Bowen LLP LLP Hodgson Russ LLP Miami, FL Jacqueline Smith Los Angeles, CA Buffalo, NY GABWA Kelly Romich Atlanta, GA Megan Vetula AT&T Georgetown University Law Center Atlanta, GA Jessica Spangler Vienna, VA The Law Offices of David Gloss Carolyn Russell Denver, CO Dorothea Vidal Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Vidal P.C. & Stewart, P.C. Dallas, TX Houston, TX
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Networking Roster
The NAWL Networking Roster is a service for NAWL members to provide career and business networking opportunities within NAWL. Inclusion in the roster is an option available to all members, and is neither a solicitation for clients nor a representation of specialized practice or skills. Areas of practice concentration are shown for networking purposes only. Individuals seeking legal representation should contact a local bar association lawyer referral service.
PRACTICE AREA KEY ENG Energy MEA Media ACC Accounting ENT Entertainment MED MedicalMalpractice ADO Adoption EPA Environmental M&A Mergers & Acquisitions ADR Alt. Dispute Resolution ERISA ERISA MUN Municipal ADV Advertising EST Estate Planning NET Internet ANT Antitrust ETH Ethics & Prof. Resp. NPF Nonprofit APP Appeals EXC Executive Compensation OSH occupational Safety & Health ARB Arbitration FAM Family PIL Personal Injury BDR Broker Dealer FIN Finance PRB Probate & Administration BIO Biotechnology FRN Franchising PRL Product Liability BKR Bankruptcy GAM Gaming RES Real Estate BNK Banking GEN Gender & Sex RSM Risk Management BSL Commercial/ Bus. Lit. GOV Government Contracts SEC Securities CAS Class Action Suits GRD Guardianship SHI Sexual Harassment CCL Compliance Counseling HCA Health Care SPT Sports Law CIV Civil Rights HOT Hotel & Resort SSN Social Security CLT Consultant ILP Intellectual Property STC Security Clearances CNS Construction IMM Immigration TAX Tax COM Complex Civil Litigation INS Insurance TEL Telecommunications CON Consumer INT International TOL Tort Litigation COR Corporate INV Investment Services TOX Toxic Tort CRM Criminal IST Information Tech/Systems TRD Trade CUS Customs JUV Juvenile Law TRN Transportation DOM Domestic Violence LIT Litigation T&E Wills, Trusts&Estates EDU Education LND Land Use WCC White Collar Crime EEO Employment & Labor LOB Lobby/Government Affairs WOM Women’s Rights ELD Elder Law MAR Maritime Law WOR Worker’s Compensation ELE Election Law
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ALABAMA CALIFORNIA Katherine C. Piper Steptoe & Johnson LLP William W. Bates (Billy) Sophie M. Alcorn 2121 Avenue of the Stars Starnes & Atchison, LLP Law Offices of John R. Alcorn 28th Floor 100 Brookwood Place 2212 Dupont Drive Los Angeles, CA 90067 7th Floor Suite V T: 310.734.3273 Birmingham, AL 35209 Irvine, CA 92612 [email protected] T: 205.868.6000 T: 949.553.8529 BKR [email protected] [email protected] IMM Dr. Sunwolf Kimberly A. Demarchi Santa Clara University-Department of Lewis and Roca LLP Tiffany Dou Communication 40 North Central Avenue Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden, APC 500 El Camino Real Suite 1900 550 E. Hospitality Lane Santa Clara, CA 95053 Phoenix, AZ 85004 Suite 300 T: 408.554.4911 T: 602.262.5728 San Bernardino, CA 92408-4205 [email protected] [email protected] T: 909-890-4499 BSL, ELE, LIT, [email protected] Courtney Vaudreuil Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP Kelli Robinson Sara Holtz 221 North Figueroa Street Sirote & Permutt, PC Client Focus Suite 1200 2311 Highland Avenue South 2990 Lava Ridge Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 Birmingham, AL 35205 Suite 230 T: 213.680.5182 T: 205.930.5158 Roseville, CA 95661 [email protected] [email protected] T: 916.797.1525 EPA LIT, LND, TOX, PRL HCA, EEO [email protected] CLT Rik S. Tozzi Starnes & Atchison, LLP Kay E. Kochenderfer Colorado 100 Brookwood Place Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 7th Floor 333 S. Grand Avenue Margaret Parnell Hogan Birmingham, AL 35209 Suite 5364 Littler Mendelson PC T: 205.868.6088 Los Angeles, CA 90071 1200 17th Street [email protected] T: 213.229.7712 Suite 1000 [email protected] Denver, CO 80202 CAS, ANT, BSL, T: 303.362.2886 [email protected] ARIZONA Kiko Korn Legal Writing Works Marianne K. Lizza-Irwin Pamela J. P. Donison 3326 S. Bentley Avenue The Ross-Shannon Law Firm Donison Law Firm, PLLC Los Angeles, CA 90034 12596 West Bayaud Avenue 11811 North Tatum Blvd. T: 310.242.1400 Lakewood, CO 80228 Suite P177 [email protected] T: 303.988.9500 Phoenix, AZ 85028 [email protected] T: 480.951.6599 Nina Marino LIT, BSL, INS, PRL [email protected] Kaplan Marino, PC 9454 Wilshire Blvd. Elizabeth A. Starrs Marianne M. Trost Suite 500 Starrs Mihm & Pulkrabek LLP The Women Lawyers Coach LLC Beverly Hills, CA 90212 707 Seventeenth Street 15665 E. Golden Eagle Blvd. T: 310.557.0007 Suite 2600 Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 [email protected] Denver, CO 80202 T: 480.225.9367 APP, CRM, DOM, HCA T: 303.592.5900 [email protected] [email protected] CLT Edith R. Matthai ADR, LIT, INS Robie & Matthai 500 South Grand Avenue 15th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071 T: 213.706.8000 [email protected] ETH
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Connecticut Martha L. Rees Lorelie S. Masters DuPont Company Jenner & Block LLP Karey P. Pond 1007 Market Street 1099 New York Avenue, NW Tedford & Henry, LLP DuPont Building 8032 Suite 900 750 Main Street Wilmington, DE 19898 Washington, DC 20001 Suite 1600 T: 302.774.4028 T: 202.639.6076 Hartford, CT 06103 [email protected] [email protected] T: 860.293.1200 ext. 103 INS [email protected] Janine M. Salomone Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP Julia Anne Matheson Christine Repasy 1313 North Market Street Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & White Mountains Re Herculez Plaza, 6th Floor Dunner LLP 628 Hebron Avenue Wilmington, DE 19801 901 New York Ave., NW Bldg., 2 Suite 501 T: 302. 984.6128 Washington, DC 20001 Glastonbury, CT 06033 [email protected] T: 202.408.4020 T: 860.368.2012 COR [email protected] [email protected] Katelyn M. Torpey Kerry Clinton O’Dell Carmina Tessitore, Esq. McCarter & English LLP Hollingsworth LLP 18 Chucta Road 405 N. King Street 1350 I Street NW Seymour, CT 06483 Wilmington, DE 19801 Washington, DC 20005 T: 203.415.1125 T: 302.984.6365 T: 202.898.5887 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] LIT PRL, GOV
Diane Woodfield Whitney Ellen Ostrow, Ph.D., CMC Pullman & Comley LLC Lawyers Life Coach, Inc. 90 State House Square District of Columbia 910 17th Street, NW Hartford, CT 06103 Suite 306 T: 860.424.4330 Michele A. Cimbala Washington, DC 20006 [email protected] Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC T: 202.595.3108 TOX, EPA, LIT 1100 New York Avenue [email protected] Washington, DC 20005 CLT T: 202.371.2600 [email protected] Karla L. Palmer DELaWARE BIO McDermott Will & Emery LLP 600 13th Street, N.W. Ellisa Opstbaum Habbart Deanna Dawson Washington, DC 20005-3096 The Delaware Counsel Group LLP Justice at Stake T: 202.756.8142 300 Martin Luther King Blvd. 717 D Street NW [email protected] Suite 200 Suite 203 BSL Wilmington, DE 19801 Washington, DC 20004 T: 302.576.9600 T: 202.588.9434 [email protected] [email protected] COR, M&A FLORIDA Tracy-Gene G. Durkin Heather D. Jefferson Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC Heather M. Byrer The Delaware Counsel Group LLP 1100 New York Ave. NW Stiles, Taylor & Grace, P.A. 300 Martin Luther King Blvd. Washington, DC 20005 PO Box 48190 Suite 200 T: 202.371.2600 Jacksonville, FL 32247 Wilmington, DE 19801 [email protected] T: 904.636.7501 T: 302.576.9600 [email protected] [email protected] Deborah Schwager Froling EEO COR Arent Fox LLP 1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW Barbara J. Compiani Amy Quinlan Washington, DC 20036 Kreusler-Walsh, Compiani & Vargas PA Morris James LLP T: 202.857.6075 501 South Flagler Drive 500 Delaware Avenue [email protected] Suite 503 Wilmington, DE 19899-2306 COR, RES, SEC, M&A West Palm Beach, FL 33401 T: 302.888.6886 T: 561.659.5455 [email protected] Arielle S. Krause [email protected] BSL McKee Nelson LLP APP 1919 M Street NW Washington, DC 20036 T: 202.327.2079 [email protected] TAX
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Jennifer E. Greaney Lucy Jane Wilson NEW JERSEY Sally & Fitch LLP P.O. Box 338 One Beacon Street Saint Michael, MN 55376-0338 Stacey D. Adams Boston, MA 02108 T: 763.425.8723 Littler Mendelson PC T: 617.542.5542 [email protected] One Newark Center [email protected] 1085 Raymond Blvd. 8th Floor Newark, NJ 07102 MISSISSIPPI T: 973.848.4738 MICHIGAN [email protected] Sharon F. Bridges Michelle Antionette Busuito Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, PLLC Jeanne Schubert Barnum Michigan Supreme Court P.O. Box Drawer 119 Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP 3035 Grand Blvd. Jackson, MS 39205 220 Lake Drive East Detroit, MI 48202 T: 601.948.3101 Suite 200 T: 313.972.3257 [email protected] Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 [email protected] T: 856.482.5222 Kristina M. Johnson [email protected] Sue Ellen Eisenberg Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis P.A. CNS, EPA, ADR Sue Ellen Eisenberg & Associates 190 East Capitol Street 33 Bloomfield Hills Parkway Suite 800 Sarah M. Canberg Suite 145 Jackson, MS 39201 Porzio Bromberg and Newman Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304 T: 601.949.4785 100 Southgate Parkway T: 248.258.5050 [email protected] Morristown, NJ 07962-1997 [email protected] BSL, BKR T: 973.889.4204 EEO [email protected] EPA, LND Jaclyn Shoshana Levine MISSOURI Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC Stephanie J. Cohen One Michigan Avenue McCarter & English, LLP Kristie Crawford Suite 900 Four Gateway Center Brown & James, P.C. Lansing, MI 48933 100 Mulberry Street 300 S. John Q. Hammons Parkway T: 517.487.2070 Newark, NJ 07102 Suie 202 [email protected] T: 973.639.2026 Sprinfield, MO 65806 LIT, EPA [email protected] T: 417.831.1412 LIT Kathleen Maslanka [email protected] LIT, EEO Women Lawyers Association of Michigan Linda S. Ershow-Levenberg 3300 Washtenaw Avenue Fink Rosner Ershow-levenberg, LLC Elaine M. Moss Suite 220 Attorneys at Law Brown & James, P.C. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 1093 Raritan Road 1010 Market Street T: 734.973.7600 Clark, NJ 07066 20th Floor [email protected] T: 732.382.6070 St.Louis, MO 63101 ELD, MED, GRD, SSN T: 314.242.5208 [email protected] Alitia Faccone MINNESOTA INS, LIT McCarter & English, LLP Four Gateway Center Angela Beranek Brandt Lori Rook 100 Mulberry Street Larson King LLP Brown & James, P.C. Newark, NJ 07102 2800 Wells Fargo Place 300 S. John Q. Hammons Parkway T: 973.848.5376 30 East Seventh Street Suite 202 [email protected] St. Paul, MN 55101 Springfield, MO 65806 LIT T: 651.312.6544 T: 417.831.1412 [email protected] [email protected] Kathleen Hart CNS, BSL, INS, EEO Morgan Melhuish Abrutyn 651 W. Mt. Pleasant Avenue Marlene S. Garvis Livingston, NJ 07039 Jardine, Logan & O’Brien, PLLP T: 973.994.2500 8519 Eagel Point Blvd. [email protected] Suite 100 Lake Elmo, MN 55042 Garalyn Humphrey T: 651.290.6569 Geralyn Gahran Humphrey, Esq. [email protected] 33 Washington Avenue HCA, EEO, PRL, ETH West Caldwell, NJ 07006 T: 973.632.5593 [email protected] COR, M&A, RES
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Karen Painter Randall Alesandra Lanto, Ph.D. Annie J. Wang Connell Foley LLP Psychologist-Writer & Coach to Wormser, Kiely, Galef & Jacobs LLP 85 Livingston Avenue Professional Women 825 Third Ave. Roseland, NJ 07068 60 E. 8th Street, #30D New York, NY 10022-7519 T: 973.535.0500 New York, NY 10003 T: 212.573.0613 [email protected] T: 917.208.8230 [email protected] [email protected] IMM Cassandra Savoy 622 Bloomfield Avenue Grace P. Lee, Ph.D., J.D. Bloomfield, NJ 07003-2521 The Forensic Psychology Group T: 973.748.0097 141 E. 55th Street NORTH CAROLINA [email protected] Suite 3D New York, NY 10022 Susan J. Giamportone Shawn White T: 212.888.8199 Womble Carlye Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Prudential [email protected] One West Fourth Street 751 Broad Street IMM, CRM Winston-Salem, NC 27101 21st Floor T: 336.728.7075 Newark, NJ 07102 Sharon Mahn [email protected] T: 212.455.3883 Major Lindsey & Africa TOL, HCA [email protected] 551 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10280 T: 212.201.3963 OHIO [email protected] NEW YORK Suzanne Bretz Blum Gloria S. Neuwirth 2463 Snowberry Lane Monica Barron Davidson, Dawson & Clark LLP Pepper Pike, OH 44124 Georgoulis & Associates PLLC 60 East 42nd Street LIT 45 Broadway 38th Floor 14th Floor New York, NY 10165 Dawn Conway New York, NY 10006 T: 212.557.7720 LexisNexis T: 212.425.7854 [email protected] 9443 Springboro Pike [email protected] EST, PRB, T&E, NPF Miamisburg, OH 45342 T: 937.865.1815 Stacie Bennett Laura S. Norman [email protected] Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. Greenberg Traurig, PA LIC, VP 40 Wall Street 200 Park Avenue New York, NY 10005 15th Floor Amy Leopard T: 212.471.8485 New York, NY 10166 Walter & Haverfield LLP [email protected] T: 212.801.9259 1301 E. 9th Street LIT, PRL [email protected] Suite 3500 RES Martha E. Gifford Cleveland, OH 44114 T: 216.928.2889 Law Offices of Martha E. Gifford Gille Ann Rabbin, Esq. [email protected] 93 Montague Street, #220 60 East End Avenue COR, ILP, BIO, HCA Brooklyn, NY 11201 New York, NY 10028 T: 718.858.7571 T: 917.763.0579 Amanda Martinsek [email protected] [email protected] ANT Cleveland, OH 44114 INS Maura I. Russell Beth L. Kaufman Epstein Becker & Green P.C. Beatrice K. Sowald Schoeman Updike & Kaufman LLP 250 Park Avenue Sowald, Sowald, Anderson & Hawley 60 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10177 400 South Fifth Street New York, NY 10165 T: 212.351.3758 Suite 101 T: 212.661.5030 [email protected] Columbus, OH 43215 [email protected] BNK, COR LIT, PRL, EEO T: 614.464.1877 [email protected] Tonia A. Sayour FAM, PRB Geri S. Krauss Cooper & Dunham LLP Krauss PLLC 30 Rockefeller Plaza Elizabeth M. Stanton One North Broadway 20th Floor Chester Wilcox & Saxbe LLP White Plains, NY 10601 New York, NY 10112 65 East State Street T: 914.949.9100 T: 212.278.0513 Suite 1000 [email protected] [email protected] Columbus, OH 43215-4213 T: 614.221.4000 [email protected] EEO, EDU, APP, MUN
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INTRODUCTION. SECTION THE FIRST. ON THE STUDY OF THE LAW.* MR. VICE-CHANCELLOR, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE UNIVERSITY, THE general expectation of so numerous and respectable an audience, the novelty, and (I may add ) the importance of the duty required from this chair, must unavoidably be productive of great diffidence and apprehensions in him who has the honour to be placed in it. He must be sensible how much will depend upon his conduct in the infancy of a study, which is now first adopted by public academical authority; which has generally been reputed (however unjustly) of a dry and unfruitful nature; and of which the theoretical, elementary parts have hitherto received a very moderate share of cultivation. He cannot but reflect that, if either his plan of instruction be crude and injudicious, or the execution of it lame and superficial, it will cast a damp upon the farther progress of this most useful and most rational branch of learning; and may defeat for a time the public-.{Fe}* Read in oxford at the opening of the Vincrian lectures; 25 Oct. 1758. .{Fe} A a spirited. P 4 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. spirited design of our wife and munificent benefactor. And this he must more especially dread, when he feels by experience how unequal his abilities are (unassisted by preceding examples ) to complete, in the manner he could wish, so extensive and arduous a task; since he freely confesses, that his former more private attempts have fallen very short of his own ideas of perfection. And yet the candour he has already experienced, and this last transcendent mark of regard, his present nomination by the free and unanimous suffrage of a great and learned university, (an honour to be ever remembered with the deepest and most affectionate gratitude ) these testimonies of your public judgment must entirely supersede his own, and forbid him to believe himself totally insufficient for the labour at least of this employment. One thing he will venture to hope for, and it certainly shall be his constant aim, by diligence and attention to stone for his other defects; esteeming, that the best return, which he can possibly make for your favorable opinion of his capacity, will be his unwearied endeavours in some little degree to deserve it. THE science thus committed to his charge, to be cultivated, methodized, and explained in a course of academical lectures, is that of the laws and constitution of our own country: a species of knowledge, in which the gentlemen of England have been more remarkably deficient than those of all Europe besides. In most of the nations on the continent, where the civil or imperial law under different modifications is closely interwoven with the municipal laws of the land, no gentleman, or at least no scholar, two of lectures, both upon the institutes of Justinian and the local constitutions of his native foil, under the very eminent professors that abound in their several universities. And in the northern parts of our own island, where also the municipal laws are frequently connected with the civil, it is difficult to meet with a person of liberal education, who is destitute of a competent knowledge in that science, which is to be the guardian of his natural rights and the rule of his civil conduct. NOR .P 5 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. NOR have the imperial laws been totally neglected even in the English nation. A general acquaintance with their decisions has ever been deservedly considered as no small accomplishment of a gentleman; and a fashion has prevailed, especially of late, to transport the growing hopes of this island to foreign universities, in Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; which, though infinitely inferior to our own in every other consideration, have been looked upon as better nurseries of the civil, or (which is nearly the fame) of their own municipal law. In the mean time it has been the peculiar lot of our admirable system of laws, to be neglected, and even unknown, by all but one practical profession; though built upon the soundest foundations, and approved by the experience of ages. FAR be it from me to derogate from the study of the civil law, considered (apart from any binding authority) as collection of written reason. No man is more thoroughly persuaded of the general excellence of it's rules, and the usual equity of it's decisions; nor is better convinced of it's use as well as ornament to the scholar, the divine, the statesman, and even the common lawyer. But we must not carry our veneration so far as to sacrifice our Alfred and Edward to the manes of Theodosius and Justinian: we must not prefer the edict of the praetor, or the rescript of the Roman emperor, tour own immemorial customs, or the sanctions of an English parliament; unless we can also prefer the despotic monarchy of Rome and Byzantium, for whose meridians the former were calculated, to the free constitution of Britain, which the latter are adapted to perpetuate. WITHOUT detracting therefore from the real merit which abounds in the imperial law, I hope I may have leave to assert, that if an Englishman must be ignorant of either the one or the other, he had better be a stranger to the Roman than the English institutions. For I think it an undeniable position, that a competent knowledge of the laws of that society, in which we live, is .P 6 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. is the proper accomplishment of every gentleman and scholar; an highly useful, I had almost said essential, part of liberal and polite education. And in this I am warranted by the example of ancient Rome; where, as Cicero informs us a, the very boys were obliged to learn the twelve tables by heart, as a carmen necessarium or indispensable lesson, to imprint on their tender minds an early knowledge of the laws and constitutions of their country. BUT as the long and universal neglect of this study, with us in England, seems in some degree to call in question the truth of this evident position, it shall therefore be the business of this introductory discourse, in the first place to demonstrate the utility of some general acquaintance with the municipal law of the land, by pointing out its particular uses in all considerable situations of life. Some conjectures will then be offered with regard to the causes of neglecting this useful study: to which will be subjoined a few reflections on the peculiar propriety of reviving it in our own universities. AND, first, to demonstrate the utility of some acquaintance with the laws of the land, let us only reflect a moment on the singular frame and polity of that land, which is governed by this system of laws. A land, perhaps the only one in the universe, in which political or civil liberty is the very end and scope of the constitutions. This liberty, rightly understood, consists in the power of doing whatever the laws permits; which is only to be effected by a general conformity of all orders and degrees to those equitable rules of action, by which the meanest individual is protected from the insults and oppression of the greatest. As therefore every subject is interested in the preservation of the laws, it is incumbent upon every man to be acquainted with those at least, with which he is immediately concerned; left he incur the censure, as well as inconvenience, of living in society without knowing the obligations which it lays him under. And thus much .{FS} a De Legg. 2. 23. b Mentefq Efp. L. l. 11. c. 5. c Facultas ejus, quod cuiqur facere libet, mf quid vi, aut jure probibetur. Lnft. 1.3. 1. .{FE} may .P 7 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. may suffice for persons of inferior condition, who have neither time nor capacity to enlarge their views beyond that contracted sphere in which they are appointed to move. But those, on whom nature and fortune have bestowed more abilities and greater leisure, cannot be so easily excused. These advantages are given them, not for the benefit of themselves only, but also of the public: and yet they cannot, in any scene of life, discharge properly their duty either to the public or themselves, without some degree of knowledge in the laws. To evince this the more clearly, may not be amiss to descend to a few particulars. LET us therefore begin with our gentlemen of independent estates and fortune, the most useful as well as considerable body of men in the nation; whom even to suppose ignorant in this branch of learning is treated by Mr Locked as a strange absurdity. It is their landed property, with it's long and voluminous train of descents and conveyances, settlements, entail, and inject of legal knowledge. The thorough comprehension of these, in all their minute distinctions, is perhaps too laborious a task for any but a lawyer by profession: yet still the understanding of a few some check and guard upon a gentleman's inferior agents, and preserve him at least from very gross and notorious imposition. AGAIN, the policy of all laws has made some forms necessary in the wording of last wills and testaments, and more with regard to their attestation. An ignorance in these must always be of dangerous consequence, to such as by choice or necessity compile their own testaments without any technical assistance. Those who have attended the courts of justice are the best witnesses of the confusion and distresses that are hereby occasioned in families; and of the difficulties that arise in discerning the true meaning .{FS} d Education. §. 187. .{FE} of .P 8 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. of the testator, or sometimes in discovering any meaning at all: so that in the end his estate may often be vested quite contrary to these his enigmatical intentions, because perhaps he has omitted one or two formal words, which are necessary to ascertain the sense with indisp utable legal precision, or has executed his will in the presence of fewer witnesses than the law requires. BUT to proceed from private concerns to those of a more public consideration. All gentlemen of fortune are, in consequence of their property, liable to be called upon to est ablish the rights, to estimate the injuries, to weigh the accusations, and sometimes to dispose of the lives of their fellow -subjects, by serving upon juries. In this situation they are frequently to decide, and that upon their oaths, questions of nice importance, in the solution of which some legal skill is requisite; especially where the law and the fact, as it often happens, are intimately blended together. And the general incapacity, even of our best juries, to do this with any tolerable propriety has greatly debased their authority; and has unavoidably thrown more power into the hands of the judges, to direct, control, and even reverse their verdicts, than perhaps the constitution intended. BUT it is not as a juror only that the English gentleman is called upon to determine questions of right, and distribute justice to his fellow -subjects: it is principally with this order of men that the commission of the peace is filled. And here a very ample field is opened for a gentleman to exert his talents, by maintaining good order in his neighbourhood; by punishing the dissolute and idle; by protecting the peaceable and industrious; and, above all, by healing petty differences and preventing vexatious prosecutions. But, in order to attain these desirable ends, it is necessary that the magistrate should understand his business; and have not only the will, but the power also, (under which must be included the knowledge) of administering legal and effectual justice. Else, when he has mistaken his authority, through passion, through ignorance, or absurdity, he will be the object of cont empt .P 9 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. contempt from his inferiors, and of censure from those to whom he is accountable for his conduct. YET farther; most gentlemen of considerable property, at some period or other in their lives, are ambitious of representing their country in parliament: and those, who are ambitious of receiving so high a trust, would also do well to remember it's nature and importance. They are not thus honourably distinguished from the rest of their fellow-subjects, merely that they may privilege their persons, their estates, or their domestics; that they may lift under party banners; may grant or wit h-hold supplies; may vote with or vote against a popular or unpopular administration; but upon considerations far more interesting and important. They are the guardians of the English constitution; the makers, repealers, and interpreters of the English laws; delegated to watch, to check, and to avert every dangerous innovation, to propose, to adopt, and to cherish any solid and well-weighed improvement; bound by every tie of nature, of honour, and of religion, to transmit that constitution and those laws to their posterity, amended if possible, al least without any derogation. And how unbecoming must it appear in a member of the legislature to vote for a new law, who is utterly ignorant of the old ! what kind of interpretation can he be enabled to give, who is a stranger to the text upon which he comments ! INDEED it is really amazing, that there should be no other state of life, no other occupation, art, or science, in which some method of instruction is not looked upon as requisite, except only the science of legislation, the noblest and most difficult of any. Apprenticeships are held necessary to almost every art, commercial or mechanical: a long course of reading and study must form the divine, the physician, and the practical professor of the laws: but every man of superior fortune thinks himself born a legislator. Yet Tully was of a different opinion: “It is necef- B “fary, .P 10 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. “fary, says hee, for a senator to be thoroughly acquainted with “the constitution; and this, he dec lares, is a knowledge of the “most extensive nature; a matter of sci- ence, of diligence, of “reflexion; without which no senator can possibly be fit for his “office.” THE mischiefs that have arisen to the public from inconsiderate alterations in our laws, are too obvious to be called in question; and how far they have be en owing to the defective education of our senators, is a point well worthy the public attention. The common law of England has fared lik e other venerable edifices of antiquity, wh ich rash and unexperienced workmen have ventured to new-dress and refine, with all the rage of modern improvement. Hence frequentl y it's symmetry has been destroyed, it's proportions distorted, and it's majestic simplicity exchanged for speci ous embellishments and fantastic novelties. For, to fay the truth, almost all the perplexed questions, almost all the nice ties, intricacies, and delays (which have sometimes disgraced the Eng lish, as well as other, cou rts of justice) owe thei r original not to the common law itself, but to innovations that have been made in it by acts of parliament; “overladen (as fir Edward “Coke express es it f) with provisoes and additi ons, and many “times on a sudden penned or corrected by men of none or very “little judgment in law.” This great and well -experienced judge declar es, that in all his time he never kn ew two questions made upon rights merely depending upon the common law; and warmly laments the confusion introduced by ill-judging and unlearned le gislators. “But if, he subjoins, act s of parliament were “after the old fashion penned, by such only as perfectly knew “what the common law was before the making of any act of “parliam ent co ncerning that matter, as also how far forth former statutes had provided remedy for former mischiefs, and “d efects discovered by experience; then should very few quef- .{FS} e De Legg. 3. 18. Eft. Fenatori necessarium fine quo para tus esse senator nullo pacto potey no ffe rempublicum; icque la te patet: - genus bor omne scientiae, dilig entiat, memoriae eft; fine quo para tus effe fonator nullo pacto pofef. f 2 Rep. Pref. .{FE} “tions .P 11 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. “tions in law arise, and the learned should not so often and so “much perplex their he ads to make atonement and peace, by “co nstruction of law, between insens ible and disagreeing words, “sentences, and provisoes, as they now do.” And if this incon venience was so heavily felt in the reign of queen Elizabeth, you may judge how the evil is increased in later times, when the statute book is sw elled to ten times a larger bulk; un less it should be found, that the penners of our modern statutes have proportionably better informed themselves in the knowledge of the common law. WHAT is said of our gentlemen in general, and the propriety of their appli cation to the study of the laws of their country, will hold equally strong or still stronger with regard to the nobility of this realm, except only in the article of serving upon juries. But, inst ead of this, they have several peculiar pro vinces of far greater consequence and con cern; being not only by birth here ditary counsellors of the crown, and judges upon their honour of the lives of their brother-peers, but also arbiters of the property of all their fellow -subjects, and that in the last resort. In this their judicial capacity they are bound to decide the nicest and most criti cal points of the law; to examine and correct such errors as have escaped the most exper ienced stages of the profession, the lo rd keeper and the judges of the courts at Westminster. Their sentence is final, decisive, irrevocable: no appeal, no correction, not even a re view can be had: and to their determination, whatever it be, the inferior courts of justice must conform; otherwise the rule of prope rty would no longer be uniform and steady. SHOULD a jud ge in the most fubor dinate jurisdiction be deficient in the knowledge of the law, it would reflect infinite contempt upon himself and disgrace upon those who employ him. And yet the consequence of his ignorance is co mparatively very trifling and small: his jud gment may be examined, and his errors rectified, by other courts. But how much more serious and B 2 affecting .P 12 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. affecting is the cafe of a fup erior judge, if without any skill in the laws he will boldly venture to decide a question, upon which the welfare and subsistence of whole families may depend ! where the chance of his judging right, or wrong, is barely equal; and where, if he chances to judge wrong, he does an injury of the most alarming nature, an injury without possibility of reg rets. YET, vast as this trust is, it can no where be so properly reposed as in the noble ha nds where our excellent constitution has placed it: and therefore placed it, because, from the independence of their fortune and the dignity of their station, they are perfumed to employ that lei sure which is the consequence of both, in attaining a more extensive knowle dge of the laws than persons of inferior rank: and because the founders of our polity relied upon that delicacy of sentiment, so peculiar to noble birth; whi ch, as on the one hand it will preve nt either interest or affection from interfe ring in questions of right, so on the other it will bind a peer in honour, an obligation which the law esteems equal to another's oath, to be master of those points upon which it is his bi rthright to decide. THE Roman pan dects will furnish us with a piece of history not unapplicable to our present pur pose. Servius Sulpicius, a gentleman of the patrician order, and a celebrated orator, had occasion to take the opinion of Quintus Mutius Scaevola, the orac le of the Roman law; but for want of some knowledge in that science, could not so much as understand even the te chnical terms, which his friend was obliged to make use of. Upon which Mutius Scaevola could not forbear to upbraid him with this memorable reproofs, “that it was a shame for a patrician, a nobleman, and an orator of cau ses, to be ignorant of that law in “wh ich he was so peculiarly concerned.” This reproach made so deep an impression on Sulpicius, that he immediately applied himself to the study of the law; wherein he arrived to that pro- .{FS} g Ff. 1. 2. 2. §. 43. Turpe effe patricio, & caufas oranti, jus in quo verfaretur ignorare. .{FE} ficiency,.P 13On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. ficiency, that he left behind him about a hundred and fourscore volu mes of his own compiling upon the subject; and be came, in the opinion of Ciceroh, a much more complete lawyer than even Mutius Scaevola himself. I WOULD not be thought to recommend to our English nobility and gentry to become as great lawyers as Sulpicius; though he, together with this character, su stained likewise that of an excellent orator, a firm patriot, and a wife indefatig able senator; but the inference which arises from the story is this, that ignorance of the laws of the land hath ever been esteemed dishonorable, in those who are entrusted by their country to ma intain, to administer, and to amend th em. BUT surely there is little occasion to enforce this argument any farther to persons of rank and distinction, if we of this place may be allowed to form a general judgment from those who are under our inspection: happy, that while we lay down the rule, we can also prod uce the example. You will therefore per mit your professor to indulge both a public and private satisfaction, by bearing this open testimony; that in the infancy of these studies among us, they were favoured with the most dilig ent attendance; and pursued with the most un wearied application, by those of the noblest birth and most ample patrimony: some of whom are still the ornaments of this feat of learning; and others at a greater distance continue doing honour to it' institutions, by compar ing our polity and laws with those of other kingdoms abroad, or exerting their senatorial abilities in the councils of the nation at home. NOR will some degree of legal knowledge be found in the least superfluous to persons of inferior rank; especially those of the learned prof effions. The clergy in particular, besides the common obligations they are under in proportion to the ir rank and fortune, have also abundant reason, con sidered merely as clergy- .{FS} h Brut. 41. {FE} men. .P 14 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. men, to be acquainted with ma ny branches of the law, which are almost peculiar and appropriated to themselves al one. Such are the laws relating to advowfons, institutions, and indu ctions; so simony, a nd simoniacal contracts; to uniformity, reside nce, and pluralities; to tithes and other ecclesia stical dues; to marriages (more especially of late) and to a variety of other subjects, which are consigned to the care of their order by the provisio ns of particular statutes. To understand these ari ght, to discern wha t a warranted or enjoined, and what is forbidden by law, demands a fort of legal apprehension; which is no otherwise to be acquired than by use and a familiar acquaintan ce with legal writers. FOR th e gentlemen of the faculty of physic, I mu st frankly own that I see no s pecial reason, why they in particular should apply themselves to the study of the law; unless in common with other gentlemen, and to com- plete the character of general an d extensive knowledge; a character which their profession, beyond others , has remarkably deserved. They will give me leave however to suggest, and that not ludicrously, that it might frequently be of use to families upon sudden emergencies, if the physician were acqua inted with the doctrine of last wills and testament s, at least so far as relates to the formal part of their execution. BUT those gentlemen who intend to profess the civil and ecclesias tical laws in the spiritual and maritime courts of this kingdom, are of all men (next to common lawyers) the m ost indispensably obliged to apply themselves seriously to the study of our municipal laws. For the civil and canon laws, considered with resp ect to any intrinsic obligation, have no force or authority in this kingdom; they are no more binding in England than our laws are binding at Rome. But as far as these foreign laws, on acc ount of some peculiar propriety, have in some particular cafes, and in some particular courts, been intro duced and allowed by our laws, so far they oblige, and no farther; their authority being wholly founded upon that permission and adoption. In which we are not singular in our notions; for even in Holland, where the imperial .P 15 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. Imperial law is much cultivated and it's decisions pretty generally followed, we are informed by Van Lee uweni, that, “it receives “it's force from custom and the consent of the people, either tacitly or expressly given: for otherwise, he adds, we should no “more be bound by this law, than by that of the Almains, the “Franks, the Saxons, the Goths, the Vandals, and other of the “ancient nations.” Wherefore, in all points in which the different systems depart from each other, the law of the land takes place of the law of Rome, whether ancient or modern, imperial or pontificial. And in those of our English courts wherein a reception has been allowed to the civil and canon laws, if either they exceed the bounds of that reception, by extending themselves to other matters, than are permitted to them; or if such courts proceed according to the decisions of those laws, in cafes wherein it is controlled by the law of the land, the common law in either instance both may, and frequently does, prohibit and annul their proceedings: and it will not be a sufficient excuse for them to tell the king's courts at Westminster, that their practice is warranted by the laws of Justinian or Gregory, or is conformable to the decrees of the Rota or imperial chamber. For which reason it becomes highly necessary, for every civilian and canonist that would act with safety as a judge, or with prudence and reputation as an advocate, to know in what cafes and how far the English laws have given sanction to the Roman; in what points the latter are rejected; and where they are both so intermixed and blended together, as to form certain supplemental parts of the common law of England, distinguished by the titles of the king's maritime, the king's military, and the king's ecclesiastical law. The property of which enquiry the university of Oxford has for more than a century so thoroughly seen, that in her statutes she appoints, that one of the three questions to be annually diffused at the act by the jurist-inceptors shall relate to the common law; subjoining this reason, “quia juris civilis ftudiofos decet baud imperitos effe juris municipalis, & difforentias ex- .{FS} I Dedicatto ceorpris juris civilis. Edn. 1663. k Hale. Hift. C. L. c. 2. Selded in Fftlari. 5 Rep. Caudrey's Cafe. 2 Inft. 599. l Tu VII. Sect. 2. §. 2. .{FE} “ter, .P 16 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. “teri patriique juris notas habere.” And the statutes of the university of Cambridge speak expressly to the fame effect. FROM the general use and necessity of some acquaintance with the common law, the inference were extremely easy, with regard to the property of the present institution, in a place to which gentlemen of all ranks and degrees resort, as the fountain of all useful knowledge. But how it has come to pass that a design of this fort has never before taken place in the university, and the reason why the study of our laws has in general fallen into diffuse, I shall previously proceed to enquire. SIR John Fortefcue, in his panegyric on the laws of England, (which was written in the reign of Henry the sixth) puts a very obvious question in the mouth of the young prince, whom he is exhorting to apply himself to that branch of learning; “why the “laws of England, being so good, so fruitful, and so commondious, are not taught in the universities, as the civil and canon “laws are ?” In answer to which he giveso what seems, with due deference be it spoken, a very jejune and unsatisfactory reason; being in short, that “as the proceedings at common law “were in his time carried on in three different tongues, the “English, the Latin, and the French, that science must be necessarily taught in those three several languages; but that in “the universities all sciences were taught in the Latin tongue “only; and therefore he concludes, that they could not be conveniently taught or studied in our universities. But without attempting to examine seriously the validity of this reason, (the very shadow of which by the wisdom of your late constitutions is entirely taken away) we perhaps may find out a better, or at least a more plausible account, why the study of the municipal laws has been banished from these feats of science, than what the learned chancellor thought it prudent to give to his royal pupil. .{FS} m Doctor legum mox a doctoratu dobit operam legibus Angliae, ut non fit imperitus carum legum quas habet fna patria, et differentias exteri patriique juris nofcat. Stat. Eliz. R. c. 14. Cowel. Inftittut. In proemio. n c. 47. o c. 48. .{FE} THAT .P 17 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. THAT ancient collection of unwritten maxims and customs, which is called the common law, however compounded or from whatever fountains derived, had fubfifted immemorially in this kingdom; and, though somewhat altered and impaired by the violence of the times, had in great measure weathered the rude shock of the Norman conquest. This had endeared it to the people in general, as well because it's decisions were universally known, as because it was found to be excellently adapted to the genius of the English nation. In the knowledge of this law consisted great part of the learning of those dark ages; it was then taught, fays Mr. Seldenp, in the monasteries, in the universities, and in the families of the principal nobility. The clergy in particular, as they then engrossed almost every other branch of learning, so (like their predecessors the British druidsq) they were peculiarly remarkable for their proficiency in the study of the law. Nullus clericus nifi caufidicus, is the character given of them soon after the conquest by William of Malmsburyr. The judges therefore were usually created out of the sacred orders, as was likewise the cafe among the Normanst; and all the inferior offices were supplied by the lower clergy, which has occasioned their successors to be denominated clerks to this day. BUT the common law of England, being not committed to writing, but only handed down by tradition, use, and experience, was not so heartily relished by the foreign clergy; who came over hither in shoals during the reign of the conqueror and his two sons, and were utter strangers to our constitution as well as our language. And an accident, which soon after happened, had nearly completed it's ruin. A copy of Justinian's pandects, being newly discovered at Amalfi, soon brought the civil law intointo .{FS} p in Fletam. 7. 7. q Caefar de bello Gal. 6. 12. r de geft. reg. l. 4. t Les juges font fages perfonnes & autentiques, -ficome les archevefques, evefques, les chanoines les eglifes catbedraulx, & les autres perfonnes qui ont dignitez in faincte eglife; les abbex, les prieurs conventauls, & les gouverneurs des eglifes, &c. Grand Couftumier, ch. 9. u circ. A. D. 1130. .{FE} C vogue .P 18 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1.vogue all over the weft of Europe, where before it was quite laid in a manner forgotten; though some traces of it's authority remained in Italy and the eastern provinces of the empire. This now became in a particular manner the favorite of the popish clergy, who borrowed the method and many of the maxims of their canon law from this original. The study of it was introduced into several universities abroad, particularly that of Bologna; where exercises were performed, lectures read, and degrees conferred in this faculty, as in other branches of science: and many nations on the continent, just then beginning to recover from the convulsions consequent upon the overthrow of the Roman empire, and settling by degrees into peaceable forms of government, adopted the civil law, (being the best written system then extant) as the basis of their own seodal customs, in some places with a more extensive, in others a more confined authority. NOR was it long before the prevailing mode of the times reached England. For Theobald, a Norman abbot, being elected to the fee of Canterburya, and extremely addicted to this new study, brought over with him in his retinue many learned proficients therein; and among the rest Roger surnamed Vacarius, whom he placed in the university of Oxford, to teach it to the people of this country. But it did not meet with the fame easy reception in England, where a mild and rational system of laws had been long established, as it did upon the continent; and, though the monkish clergy (devoted to the will of a foreign primate) received it with eagerness and zeal, yet the laity who were more interested to preserve the old constitution, and had already severely felt the effect of many Norman innovations, continued wedded to the use of the common law. King Stephen imme- {FS} w LL. Wifigofh. 2. 1. 9. x Capitular. Hludov. Pii. 4. 102. y Selden in Fletam. 5. 5. z Domat's treatise of laws. c. 13. §. 9. Epifiol. Innocent. IV. in M. Paris. ad A. D. 1254. a A. D. 1138. b Gervaf. Dorobern. Act. Pontif. Cantuar. col. 1665..{FE} diately.P 19 On the STUDY of the LAW. INTROD. §. 1. diately published a proclamation c, forbidding the study of the laws, then newly imported from Italy; which was treated by the monks d as a piece of impiety, and, though it might prevent the introduction of the civil law process into our courts of justice, yet did not hinder the clergy from reading and teaching it in their own schools and monasteries. FROM this time the nation seems to have been divided into two parties; the bishops and clergy, many of them foreigners, who applied themselves wholly to the study of the civil and canon laws, which now came to be inseparably interwoven with each other; and the nobility and laity, who adhered with equal pertinacity to the old common law; both of them reciprocally jealous of what they were unacquainted with, and neither of them perhaps allowing the opposite system that real merit which is abundantly to be found in each. This appears on the one hand from the spleen with which the monastic writers e speak of our municipal laws upon all occasions; and, on the other, from the firm temper which the nobility shewed at the famous parliament of Merton; when the prelates endeavoured to procure an act, to declare all bastards legitimate in cafe the parents intermarried at any time afterwards; alleging this only reason, because holy church (that is, the canon law) declared such children legitimate: but “all the earls and barons (fays the parliament rolls) “of England, which had hitherto been used and approved.” And we find the fame jealousy prevailing
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November 4‐5, 2010 Westin New York at Times Square
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